{"id":472438,"date":"2026-02-13T13:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/472438\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:30:17","slug":"jack-pinnington-jones-through-to-first-atp-tour-quarter-final-at-dallas-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/472438\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Pinnington Jones through to first ATP Tour quarter-final at Dallas Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Great Britain&#8217;s Jack Pinnington Jones is through to his first ATP Tour quarter-final as he continued his superb run at the Dallas Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old, who had to come through two rounds of qualifying to make the tournament&#8217;s main draw, followed up his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cre0jg74d4no\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stunning victory over Italy&#8217;s world number 20 Flavio Cobolli<\/a> by beating American Eliot Spizzirri to reach the last eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pinnington Jones, ranked 181st in the world, overcame world number 68 Spizzirri in three sets, prevailing 7-6 (7-5) 4-6 7-6 (7-4).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will face former US Open champion Marin Cilic for a place in the semi-finals on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pinnington Jones completed his junior season at Texas Christian University in May but opted against returning for a final year in order to pursue a full-time tennis career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After losing his first qualifying match at the Australian Open in January, Pinnington Jones reached the final at the Soma Bay challenger event in Egypt before embarking on his four-match winning run in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is set to climb 43 places to 138th in the world after reaching the quarter-finals, and could enter the top 110 with victory over Cilic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great Britain&#8217;s Jack Pinnington Jones is through to his first ATP Tour quarter-final as he continued his superb&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-472438","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\/472438","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=472438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}