{"id":60565,"date":"2025-08-11T03:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60565\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T03:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:39:22","slug":"opelka-breaks-de-minaur-and-duck-in-cincinnati-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60565\/","title":{"rendered":"Opelka Breaks De Minaur, And Duck, In Cincinnati \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Oddo | Sunday August 10, 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/pages\/tennis-player\/reilly-opelka?srsltid=AfmBOorQTBVYCecdw4vNCMXVykR9e12gFZVfB8q0tchf3klaZoKg1S4G\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/pages\/tennis-player\/reilly-opelka?srsltid=AfmBOorQTBVYCecdw4vNCMXVykR9e12gFZVfB8q0tchf3klaZoKg1S4G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reilly Opelka<\/a> turned a lost cause into found confidence on Sunday at the Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Pro-Player-Gear2.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54540\"  data-\/><\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>The bomb-serving American earned his first career win over Alex De Minaur in six tries, and he did it in decisive fashion, coming through 7-6(6) 6-4 to set a third-round clash with Argentina\u2019s Francisco Comesana.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2019 Sydney \ud83d\udeab<br \/>2019 Atlanta \ud83d\udeab<br \/>2019 Cincinnati \ud83d\udeab<br \/>2019 Basel \ud83d\udeab<br \/>2022 Queen\u2019s Club \ud83d\udeab<br \/>2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CincyTennis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#CincyTennis<\/a> \ud83d\udd13<\/p>\n<p>Sixth time\u2019s a charm for Reilly Opelka, who defeats De Minaur for the first time, 7-6 6-4. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pn5DQPgrM9\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Pn5DQPgrM9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1954587475386527995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 10, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t serve as well as I\u2019d have liked to, but everything else was working,\u201d said Opelka, who hadn\u2019t faced De Minaur since 2022. \u201cMy forehand helped me a lot and my backhand, playing with a lot of offense and I was pretty consistent from the baseline the whole match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>73rd-ranked Opelka is now 2-1 against the Top-10 in 2025, after defeating Novak Djokovic in Brisbane at the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>After starting the season at 283 in the rankings due to an injury hiatus that forced him off the ATP Tour for nearly two years, 27-year-old Opelka is now up to 65 in the ATP live rankings. He had hip surgery in 2022, then right wrist surgery in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Chris Oddo | Sunday August 10, 2025 Reilly Opelka turned a lost cause into found confidence on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-60565","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-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60565","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=60565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}