{"id":624516,"date":"2026-06-06T14:17:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624516\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T14:17:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:17:29","slug":"lexus-birmingham-open-2026-talia-gibson-janice-tjen-beat-british-duo-in-womens-doubles-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624516\/","title":{"rendered":"Lexus Birmingham Open 2026: Talia Gibson &#038; Janice Tjen beat British duo in women&#8217;s doubles final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British pairing made a strong start, quickly building up a 3-1 lead in the opener. However, the top seeds remained composed, reeling off the next four games to move within one of the set.<\/p>\n<p>Dart and Lumsden held serve before creating three break points to get back on level terms, only for Gibson and Tjen to fight back and clinch the set.<\/p>\n<p>The Brits stayed competitive in the second, saving three break points to keep up with the Australian-Indonesian pair.<\/p>\n<p>However, the crucial break came in their final service game at 4-3, handing Gibson and Tjen an opportunity. The pair seized it, fending off a final counterattack from the Brits to claim the title on their first time of asking.<\/p>\n<p>It marks a maiden title for Gibson and Tjen in only their first doubles tournament together as a duo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The British pairing made a strong start, quickly building up a 3-1 lead in the opener. However, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-624516","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\/624516","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=624516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}