{"id":90658,"date":"2025-08-23T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/90658\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T19:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:22:09","slug":"sai-gandepalli-takes-runner-up-finish-at-the-lexus-british-premier-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/90658\/","title":{"rendered":"Sai Gandepalli Takes Runner-Up Finish at the Lexus British Premier Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SURREY, ENGLAND &#8211; UNC Asheville Men&#8217;s Tennis sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/uncabulldogs.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/sai-gandepalli\/4942\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4942\" target=\"_blank\">Sai Gandepalli<\/a> recently competed on the Lexus British Premier Tour in his home country of England, taking a runner-up finish in men&#8217;s doubles and advancing to the round of 32 in men&#8217;s singles.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGandepalli egan singles play with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Fraser Swan, before beating Ellison Minnaar 6-4, 6-3 to advance to the round of 32. His singles run came to an end with a 7-6, 6-2, 6-2 loss to his eventual doubles partner Isaac Forde.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn doubles play, he and Forde began play with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Christian Doel and David Middleton in the Round of 16. The pair then defeated Oliver Douglas and Patrick Foley in the quarterfinal 1-6, 6-4, 10-3 before advancing to the final with a 7-6, 6-3 win over Joshua Freeman and James McKinlay. Gandepalli and Forde fell in the final 7-6, 6-2 to top seed James Beaven and Henry Bowden.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;Sai represented the University of North Carolina Asheville in a big way on a big stage while playing some great competition,&#8221; said head coach Dustin Hale. &#8220;We can&#8217;t wait to get him back on the courts for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SURREY, ENGLAND &#8211; UNC Asheville Men&#8217;s Tennis sophomore Sai Gandepalli recently competed on the Lexus British Premier Tour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-90658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90658","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=90658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}