{"id":226070,"date":"2025-10-26T07:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/226070\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T07:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:21:07","slug":"james-story-wales-number-wins-itf-m25-sheffield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/226070\/","title":{"rendered":"James Story: Wales number wins ITF M25 Sheffield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James Story has won the biggest title of his tennis career. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Welsh number one from Cardiff beat fellow Briton Anton Matusevich in a dramatic third set tie break to clinch the ITF M25 Sheffield singles title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Story, 24, comfortably beat French top seed Clement Chidekh 6-3 6-2 to set up a semi-final against Netherlands&#8217; Jelle Sels, which he won 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He took the first set 6-2 against Matusevich who fought back to claim the second 6-3, and it was Story who held his nerve in the title-deciding tie-break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Story, who began the tournament with an ATP singles ranking of 544, is now set to reach a new career-high. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His previous best career title was the M15 Monastir in Tunisia in September 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Story has won the biggest title of his tennis career. The Welsh number one from Cardiff beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-226070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226070","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=226070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}