{"id":459016,"date":"2026-03-05T14:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/459016\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:17:14","slug":"national-tennis-player-zeynep-sonmez-made-history-spectacular-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/459016\/","title":{"rendered":"National tennis player Zeynep Sonmez made history! Spectacular performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Indian Wells Tennis Tournament held in California, USA, national athlete Zeynep S\u00f6nmez defeated McCartney Kessler of the USA in the first round of the women&#8217;s singles match and advanced to the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Competing in the WTA 1000 level tournament, the 23-year-old national athlete defeated her rival McCartney Kessler 2-0 with sets of 7-6 and 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>The national tennis player, who won the first set in a tie-break, won the second set without giving a game to her opponent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69a92a158a4191797c047596.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>With this result, Zeynep S\u00f6nmez also succeeded in becoming the first Turkish tennis player to win in Indian Wells main table match.<\/p>\n<p>Zeynep will face world number 22 Anna Kalinskaya in the second round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"suggested-news__heading\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.fanatik.com.tr\/images\/fanatik\/suggestionIcon.svg\"\/>D\u00c4\u00b0KKAT \u00c3\u2021EKEN S\u00c3\u2013ZLER!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the Indian Wells Tennis Tournament held in California, USA, national athlete Zeynep S\u00f6nmez defeated McCartney Kessler of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[30732,101,118,56,54,55,165178,87144],"class_list":{"0":"post-459016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-indian-wells","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom","14":"tag-wta-1000","15":"tag-zeynep-sonmez"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459016","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=459016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}