{"id":916292,"date":"2026-10-01T07:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916292\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T07:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:10:09","slug":"tsitsipas-powers-through-to-second-round-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916292\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsitsipas powers through to second round in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas is through to the second round of the Japan Open after a comeback win over Tom\u00e1s Mart\u00edn Etcheverry 6-4, 3-6, 4-6.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek recorded nine aces and won 87 per cent of his first serves while having his Argentinian opponent on break six times \u2013 winning two.<\/p>\n<p>Tsitsipas came into the tournament as a qualifier, having to defeat home countryman Yoshihito Nishioka and Japanese Australian Rinky Hijikata to earn his spot on the main card.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll next face off with Valentin Vacherot of Monaco in the Round of 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stefanos Tsitsipas is through to the second round of the Japan Open after a comeback win over Tom\u00e1s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-916292","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\/916292","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=916292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}