{"id":598426,"date":"2026-05-22T18:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598426\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:18:09","slug":"french-open-qualifying-2026-britains-felix-gill-beaten-in-final-round-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598426\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open qualifying 2026: Britain&#8217;s Felix Gill beaten in final round in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was little to separate the players in the first set on Court Suzanne Lenglen, with Gill breaking back immediately after dropping serve in the third game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Jacquet opened up a 3-0 lead in the tie-break and Englishman Gill could not claw his way back as the Frenchman secured the opener to the delight of the home crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jacquet carried his momentum into the second set and struck the decisive blow at 3-2 before serving out victory on his second match point four games later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Of the six British players in both singles draws, only Norrie is seeded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norrie will open against Paraguay&#8217;s Adolfo Daniel Vallejo, while Fearnley faces Argentina&#8217;s Juan Manuel Cerundolo with the likely prospect of world number one Jannik Sinner waiting in round two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Samuel, meanwhile, will face Australia&#8217;s eighth seed Alex de Minaur.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raducanu has been handed a tricky first-round test against Argentine clay-court specialist Solana Sierra as Boulter starts against American wildcard Akasha Urhobo, and 25-year-old Jones plays Brazil&#8217;s 2023 semi-finalist Beatriz Haddad Maia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was little to separate the players in the first set on Court Suzanne Lenglen, with Gill breaking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-598426","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\/598426","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=598426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}