{"id":463065,"date":"2026-02-09T04:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463065\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T04:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:20:10","slug":"finland-beats-hong-kong-in-global-tennis-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463065\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland beats Hong Kong in global tennis tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1709701\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tennis-735x490.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"735\" height=\"490\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong lost 3\u20131 to Finland on Sunday at Victoria Park in a Davis Cup World Group I playoff in tennis.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat means Hong Kong will play in World Group II in September. The city was seeking a first World Group I berth in over 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Finland won Sunday\u2019s doubles match 6\u20134, 7\u20135. Patrik Niklas-Salminen and Otto Virtanen beat Coleman Wong and Nicholas Cheng.<\/p>\n<p>Virtanen then sealed Finland\u2019s victory in reverse singles. He beat Wong 7\u20135, 6\u20132 after also defeating Cheng on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong lost 3\u20131 to Finland on Sunday at Victoria Park in a Davis Cup World Group I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-463065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463065","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=463065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}