{"id":713370,"date":"2026-07-27T10:10:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713370\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T10:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:10:29","slug":"luca-van-assche-downs-alexander-blockx-to-claim-estoril-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713370\/","title":{"rendered":"Luca van Assche downs Alexander Blockx to claim Estoril title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">Luca van Assche won the Estoril ATP 250 title on Sunday with a 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 win over Belgium&#8217;s Alexander Blockx for his first tournament win on the circuit.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Frenchman won the junior title at Roland Garros five years ago and his latest win will lift him to 48th in the ATP rankings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been an incredible week, my first match Monday lasted 3hr 30min. I love playing in Portugal I won my first junior title here and now my first ATP title,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/van-assche-luca\/nP9K42Bg\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Van Assche<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/match\/tennis\/blockx-a-xll0TzGG\/van-assche-l-nP9K42Bg\/?mid=fXyaRo0D\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Check out the match stats here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luca van Assche won the Estoril ATP 250 title on Sunday with a 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 win over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-713370","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\/713370","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=713370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}