{"id":460858,"date":"2026-05-26T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/460858\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:45:08","slug":"walton-stuns-medvedev-in-five-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/460858\/","title":{"rendered":"Walton stuns Medvedev in five &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/28836-d.medvedev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Daniil Medvedev<\/a> entered Tuesday\u2019s first-round clash with Australia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/39851-a.walton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Adam Walton<\/a> having never won a five-set match on the Parisian clay. Three deciding set losses \u2013 in 2019, 2023 and 2025 \u2013 are a big reason why the former world No.1 had suffered six first-round defeats in his first ten appearances. <\/p>\n<p>Make it seven. <\/p>\n<p>On a balmy day inside Court Suzanne-Lenglen, the 97th-ranked Australian wildcard rallied from a break down in the fifth set to notch a 6-2, 1-6, 6-1, 1-6, 6-4 victory over the No.6 seed, in three hours and 22 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really like it when it&#8217;s hot in Paris,&#8221; Walton told the crowd. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev entered Tuesday\u2019s first-round clash with Australia\u2019s Adam Walton having never won a five-set match on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-460858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460858","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=460858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}