{"id":53339,"date":"2025-08-08T19:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/53339\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T19:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:16:06","slug":"cincinnati-open-sonay-kartal-suffers-first-round-loss-as-britons-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/53339\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Open: Sonay Kartal suffers first-round loss as Britons struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Britain&#8217;s Sonay Kartal suffered a first-round defeat to Caroline Garcia at the Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old was beaten 7-5 4-6 3-6 by her French opponent, who won the 2022 tournament. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Garcia, the former world number four, will now face Karolina Muchova after the 31-year-old&#8217;s first victory since 19 March, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DJ_BQ4vss_8\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;img_index=1\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">having announced in May, external<\/a> she would retire later this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kartal&#8217;s loss followed first-round exits for fellow Britons Katie Boulter and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cp942knldvyo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Fearnley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boulter, 29, was beaten 6-0 7-5 by Serbia&#8217;s Olga Danilovic, who will now face Emma Raducanu &#8211; who recently dethroned Boulter as British women&#8217;s number one &#8211; in the second round.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Sonay Kartal suffered a first-round defeat to Caroline Garcia at the Cincinnati Open. The 23-year-old was beaten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-53339","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\/53339","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=53339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}