{"id":921435,"date":"2026-10-05T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921435\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:30:13","slug":"de-minaur-reaches-china-open-final-with-djokovic-playing-medvedev-next-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921435\/","title":{"rendered":"De Minaur reaches China Open final with Djokovic playing Medvedev next \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING (AP) \u2014 Alex de Minaur advanced to the China Open final when Hubert Hurkacz retired due to an apparent injury midway through the second set of their semifinal Monday.<\/p>\n<p>De Minaur led 6-4, 3-2 when Hurkacz \u2014 who was barely able to run for balls in the second set \u2014 stopped playing.<\/p>\n<p>The nature of Hurkacz\u2019s injury was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ac3872ac9a729daf10e2d0cjpeg.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"6660\" data-pswp-height=\"4440\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ac3872ac9a729daf10e2d0cjpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Hubert Hurkacz of Poland, right, shakes hands with Alex De Minaur, of Australia, after he retired from the men's single semi-final match at the China Open tennis tournament in Beijing, Monday, Oct. 5, 2026. (AP Photo\/Achmad Ibrahim)\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHubert Hurkacz of Poland, right, shakes hands with Alex De Minaur, of Australia, after he retired from the men&#8217;s single semi-final match at the China Open tennis tournament in Beijing, Monday, Oct. 5, 2026. (AP Photo\/Achmad Ibrahim)<\/p>\n<p>De Minaur sits ninth in the qualifying rankings for the ATP Finals.<\/p>\n<p>In Tuesday\u2019s final, De Minaur will play either six-time champion Novak Djokovic or Daniil Medvedev, who were playing their semifinal later.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first meeting between the 39-year-old Djokovic and Medvedev since Djokovic beat the Russian in the 2023 U.S. Open final.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic beat Alexander Zverev in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>In the third round of the women\u2019s tournament, which ends Sunday, six-time Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek rallied past Donna Vekic 4-6, 7-6 (0), 6-2 and will next meet Iva Jovic, who beat Kamilla Rakhimova 6-1, 7-5.<\/p>\n<p>Elina Svitolina beat Maria Sakkari 6-4, 7-5.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Coco Gauff was playing 16-year-old Chinese wild card Sun Xinran, who recently won the U.S. Open junior title.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina withdraws from Wuhan<\/p>\n<p>\n          U.S. Open champion Elena Rybakina withdrew from the upcoming Wuhan Open due to a foot injury.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tThe Warm-Up<\/p>\n<p class=\"frequency\">Winnipeg Jets Game Days<\/p>\n<p>On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"email-subscribe-link button the-warmup inline-block-logged-in\">Sign up for The Warm-Up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791199813_150_theWarm-up-tile.jpg\" alt=\"Sign up for The Warm-Up\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Rybakina lost her first match with the No. 1 ranking when she was ousted in Beijing by No. 118 Alina Charaeva of Armenia in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll take some time to rest and recover,\u201d Rybakina was quoted as saying by Wuhan Open organizers.<\/p>\n<p>Charaeva extended her breakout run by beating Sonay Kartal 6-4, 6-1 to reach the last 16.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>\n          See AP\u2019s full tennis coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING (AP) \u2014 Alex de Minaur advanced to the China Open final when Hubert Hurkacz retired due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-921435","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\/921435","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=921435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}