{"id":98518,"date":"2025-08-27T01:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/98518\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T01:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:37:08","slug":"australian-hopefuls-clash-in-first-round-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/98518\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian hopefuls clash in first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomljanovic\u2019s remarkable performance continues.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s world No.79 has stormed through the second-set tie-breaker to force a deciding set against American third seed Coco Gauff.<\/p>\n<p>Tomljanovic was a set and 4-2 down, then failed to serve the second out at 5-4, and was two points from defeat at 0-30 at 5-6, but now she is going three sets.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff isn\u2019t Serena Williams, but this would be a titanic win for Tomljanovic, who clearly has an affinity with Arthur Ashe Stadium, where she ended the former world No.1\u2019s career three years ago.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Coco Gauff is in danger of a shock first-round exit at the US Open.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ed9cb27acb91dc6cebe5e137c27a73ef96bb60c7.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Coco Gauff is in danger of a shock first-round exit at the US Open.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tomljanovic\u2019s remarkable performance continues. Australia\u2019s world No.79 has stormed through the second-set tie-breaker to force a deciding set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-98518","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\/98518","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=98518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}