{"id":420995,"date":"2026-01-20T08:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/420995\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T08:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:05:09","slug":"musetti-receives-first-round-walkover-after-collignon-retires-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/420995\/","title":{"rendered":"Musetti receives first-round walkover after Collignon retires with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: World no. 5 Lorenzo Musetti of Italy advanced to the second round after his Belgian opponent Raphael Collignon retired due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>The match was a gruelling three-hour marathon,  with Musetti leading 4-6,  7-6(3),  7-5,  3-2 when Collignon had to stop.<\/p>\n<p>The match marked Musetti&#8217;s Grand Slam debut,  shortly after he attained his career-high ranking of No. 5 on January 12,  2026,  following his final appearance in Hong Kong. He is only the third Italian man in history to reach this ranking milestone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MELBOURNE: World no. 5 Lorenzo Musetti of Italy advanced to the second round after his Belgian opponent Raphael&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,176421,5718,91678,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-420995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-collignon","11":"tag-injury","12":"tag-musetti","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}