{"id":220279,"date":"2025-10-23T12:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220279\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T12:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:45:07","slug":"wrexham-open-mimi-xu-through-to-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220279\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham Open: Mimi Xu through to quarter finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales&#8217; Mimi Xu reached the quarter-finals of the Wrexham Open with a straight-set win over Lithuania&#8217;s Andre Lukosiute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Xu won her opening service game, and although a powerful display from Lukosiute saw her reel off five games in a row to take control, a battling Xu claimed the next six to take the set 7-5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 18-year-old from Swansea conceded another early break in the second set but fought back to take it 7-5 and book her spot in the next round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Xu will be in doubles action alongside fellow Brit Ella McDonald on Thursday afternoon when they take on third seeds Naima Karamoko and Jessika Ponchet in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales&#8217; Mimi Xu reached the quarter-finals of the Wrexham Open with a straight-set win over Lithuania&#8217;s Andre Lukosiute.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-220279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}