{"id":756458,"date":"2026-06-23T19:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/756458\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:27:11","slug":"wimbledon-qualifying-2026-britains-esther-adeshina-wins-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/756458\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon qualifying 2026: Britain&#8217;s Esther Adeshina wins first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Eastbourne, British qualifier Giles Hussey stunned French Open semi-finalist Matteo Arnaldi to reach the second round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 293rd-ranked Hussey beat world number 30 Arnaldi 6-4 6-2 to set up a meeting with Frenchman Quentin Halys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arnaldi, 29, was playing his first tournament since being forced to withdraw before his last-four match at Roland Garros with illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hussey won his first Challenger title in South Africa last month and secured straight-set wins over 78th-ranked James Duckworth and world number 94 Marco Trungelliti to qualify for just the second ATP Tour event of his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the women&#8217;s draw, Italy&#8217;s top seed Jasmine Paolini was beaten 6-4 6-3 by Germany&#8217;s Tatjana Maria, who won the Queen&#8217;s title last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the men&#8217;s doubles, Briton Joe Salisbury and American Rajeev Ram, who have reunited after a successful partnership from 2018 to 2024, won their opening match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Salisbury and Ram, who have won four major trophies together, prevailed 6-1 6-3 against French duo Terence Atmane and Luca Sanchez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Eastbourne, British qualifier Giles Hussey stunned French Open semi-finalist Matteo Arnaldi to reach the second round. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-756458","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\/756458","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=756458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}