{"id":248348,"date":"2026-01-20T16:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/248348\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T16:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:47:08","slug":"michael-zheng-continues-at-the-australian-open-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/248348\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Zheng Continues at the Australian Open Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE \u2013 Columbia men&#8217;s tennis senior <a href=\"https:\/\/gocolumbialions.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/michael-zheng\/20567\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"20567\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Zheng<\/a> continues his run in the Australian Open when he meets Corentin Moutet of France. Zheng and Moutet are scheduled to begin play at 10:30 p.m. on Court 6.<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nZheng, the two-time national champion, earned his first-ever<a href=\"https:\/\/gocolumbialions.com\/news\/2026\/1\/18\/mens-tennis-michael-zheng-victorious-in-main-draw-debut\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Grand Slam<\/a> singles victory when he upset fellow American Sebastian Korda in five sets, 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 6-7(7), 6-3 in the opening round of the Australian Open last Saturday.<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nMoutet, who is currently ranked No. 37 in the most recent ATP rankings, advanced to the second round after defeating Australian Tristan Schoolkate, 6-4, 7-6(1), 6-3.<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nThe Australian Open main draw will be primarily televised in the U.S. on ESPN and ESPN2, with extensive live streaming on ESPN+ for all courts. Fans can also follow Zheng&#8217;s progress on the Columbia men&#8217;s tennis social media platforms on X (@CULionsMTEN), Instagram (@culionsmten), and Facebook (@ColumbiaAthletics).<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MELBOURNE \u2013 Columbia men&#8217;s tennis senior Michael Zheng continues his run in the Australian Open when he meets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-248348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248348","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=248348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}