{"id":804253,"date":"2026-07-16T15:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/804253\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T15:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:59:11","slug":"portuguese-tennis-player-francisco-cabral-qualifies-for-the-semifinals-of-the-bastad-doubles-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/804253\/","title":{"rendered":"Portuguese tennis player Francisco Cabral qualifies for the semifinals of the Bastad doubles tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Francisco Cabral, ranked 25th in the world doubles ranking, and Th\u00e9o Arribag\u00e9, ranked 21st, only managed to prevail in the super tie-break against Adolfo Daniel Vallejo (71st in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ATP<\/a> rankings) and Joshua Paris (101st), with scores of 2-6, 6-3 and 10-4, after an hour and 14 minutes of play on the clay court of the Swedish tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Portuguese tennis player, who last competed alongside Arribag\u00e9 more than a year ago and is playing in a main circuit tournament alongside the Frenchman for the first time, will compete on 17 July for a place in the final against the pair formed by American Vasil Kirkov and Dutchman Bart Stevens.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, Francisco Cabral will play alongside Nuno Borges \u2013 the national number one and who is also competing in the Bastad tournament, but in singles \u2013 in the 2026 edition of the Estoril Open, which they won in 2022, becoming the first Portuguese pair to win an ATP doubles title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Francisco Cabral, ranked 25th in the world doubles ranking, and Th\u00e9o Arribag\u00e9, ranked 21st, only managed to prevail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-804253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}