{"id":380371,"date":"2026-01-20T13:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380371\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T13:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:47:08","slug":"australian-open-2026-jannik-sinner-through-after-hugo-gaston-retires-from-first-round-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380371\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2026: Jannik Sinner through after Hugo Gaston retires from first-round match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Apart from the opening game of the match, when he recovered from 0-40 down to hold serve, Sinner was rarely troubled by world number 93 Gaston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Playing his first official match since winning the ATP Tour Finals in November, Sinner sent down three aces and an unreturnable serve during a run of five consecutive points to avoid that early break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He lost only nine more points behind his serve in the remainder of the match, served six aces in all and did not commit a double fault, ending with a first-serve percentage of 64%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four-time Grand Slam champion Sinner reeled off four consecutive breaks of serve as he won nine games in a row, moving from 2-2 in the first set to the brink of a two-set lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gaston avoided a second-set bagel by holding serve at 5-0 down but the left-hander, who briefly received treatment at the end of the first set, elected to end the match after losing the second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Obviously it&#8217;s not the way you want to win the match. I wish him a speedy recovery and hope it&#8217;s nothing too bad,&#8221; added Sinner, who will face Australian wildcard James Duckworth in round two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apart from the opening game of the match, when he recovered from 0-40 down to hold serve, Sinner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-380371","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\/380371","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=380371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}