{"id":815710,"date":"2026-07-22T03:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/815710\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T03:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:22:14","slug":"kokkinakis-off-to-a-winning-start-at-cranbrook-tennis-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/815710\/","title":{"rendered":"Kokkinakis off to a winning start at Cranbrook Tennis Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanasi Kokkinakis is through to the Round of 16 at Cranbrook Tennis Classic after defeating Evan Zhu in straight sets 6-3, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian proved too strong for his American opponent, winning 74 per cent of his first serve points and 79 per cent of his second.<\/p>\n<p>He also won three of the nine break points he earned on Zhu while fighting off two.<\/p>\n<p>Kokkinakis will next face second-seed fellow Aussie Adam Walton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanasi Kokkinakis is through to the Round of 16 at Cranbrook Tennis Classic after defeating Evan Zhu in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-815710","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\/815710","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=815710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}