{"id":234244,"date":"2026-01-12T13:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/234244\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:05:14","slug":"hong-kong-champion-bublik-on-celebratory-beers-24-hours-in-vegas-and-doomed-major-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/234244\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong champion Bublik on celebratory beers, 24 hours in Vegas and doomed major mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">After every win in Hong Kong last week, Alexander Bublik would retire to the same Japanese restaurant and savour a \u201cbeautiful pint of beer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Bublik\u2019s drink on Sunday night would have tasted especially satisfying, after his victory over Lorenzo Musetti in the Bank of China Hong Kong Tennis Open final elevated him to a career-high No 10 world ranking.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He has five tournament wins in seven months; a late-career surge the 28-year-old partially attributes to the birth of his son Vasily in August 2022.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAt the beginning, I didn\u2019t feel that much, but once he started speaking and understanding, and being really attached to me, I realised that when I was leaving home he was missing me,\u201d Bublik told the Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAnd I miss him and my wife a lot. If I play well, I can go to fewer tournaments [because I\u2019m not chasing ranking points] and have more time to dedicate to family, friends and myself, which is very important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alexander Bublik shows off the latest addition to his fast-filling trophy cabinet. Photo: Karma Lo\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8c5dbbbc-90fa-48bc-96f2-cad74f86ec58_800a8ee7.jpg\" title=\"Alexander Bublik shows off the latest addition to his fast-filling trophy cabinet. Photo: Karma Lo\"\/>Alexander Bublik shows off the latest addition to his fast-filling trophy cabinet. Photo: Karma Lo<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Bublik said his wish to be on court more sparingly should not be mistaken for a lack of appetite for his sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After every win in Hong Kong last week, Alexander Bublik would retire to the same Japanese restaurant and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[118396,29992,118395,113492,127139,127135,3448,85,127140,46,3774,127138,20596,118402,18330,42614,15965,127136,105,40533,127137,127141],"class_list":["post-234244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alexander-bublik","tag-australian-open","tag-bank-of-china-hong-kong-tennis-open","tag-french-open","tag-gstaad","tag-halle","tag-hong-kong","tag-il","tag-indian-wells","tag-israel","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-kitzbuhel","tag-las-vegas","tag-lorenzo-musetti","tag-melbourne","tag-monaco","tag-phoenix","tag-pro-chess-league","tag-sports","tag-turin","tag-vasily","tag-yosuke-watanuki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}