{"id":597206,"date":"2026-05-22T01:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597206\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T01:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:44:14","slug":"pellegrino-and-faurel-revel-in-rg-qualification-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597206\/","title":{"rendered":"Pellegrino and Faurel revel in RG qualification &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pellegrino\u2019s season had been interrupted by a lower back issue spanning two months, but that hadn&#8217;t derailed the Italian. Just before jetting to Paris, he qualified for his first Masters 1000 main draw on home clay in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing here with my latest results is crazy,\u201d said Pellegrino, who advanced to the Rome fourth round with wins over Luca Nardi and Frances Tiafoe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m working really, really hard the past two years,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I\u2019ve always believed in myself and right now I feel great in my body, in my mind, my mentality. I think everyone needs their own time to figure out the results. If you work hard every week you will eventually get rewarded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pellegrino was halted in Rome by compatriot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/39723-j.sinner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jannik Sinner<\/a>, and he would welcome a shot at revenge against the world No.1 in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, if I play on a big court with a top seed, it\u2019s going to be tough, but an experience I want. I try to do my best every day and this would test me. We\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pellegrino\u2019s season had been interrupted by a lower back issue spanning two months, but that hadn&#8217;t derailed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-597206","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\/597206","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=597206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}