{"id":618827,"date":"2026-06-03T11:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618827\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:56:14","slug":"game-set-match-fifth-seeds-through-in-doubles-epic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618827\/","title":{"rendered":"Game, Set, Match: Fifth seeds through in doubles epic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FINAL: Bolelli\/Vavassori 6-7(7), 6-1, 7-6(12)<\/p>\n<p>Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori are into the semifinals of the men&#8217;s double, but not before enduring an epic final-set tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth seeds from Italy lost the opening set of their quarterfinal on a tight tiebreak against Petr Nouza of the Czech Republic and Austria&#8217;s Neil Oberleitner, <\/p>\n<p>They fought back to win the second 6-1 but then became locked in a tense decider which went all the way.<\/p>\n<p>They led 7-4 in the 10-point tiebreak in the third and final set but were pegged back before eventually edging home 14-12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FINAL: Bolelli\/Vavassori 6-7(7), 6-1, 7-6(12) Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori are into the semifinals of the men&#8217;s double,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-618827","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\/618827","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=618827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}