{"id":738321,"date":"2026-08-15T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T01:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738321\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T01:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T01:00:19","slug":"turkiyes-sonmez-advances-to-cincinnati-open-tennis-2nd-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738321\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s Sonmez advances to Cincinnati Open tennis 2nd round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Halis Sunnetci<\/p>\n<p>14 August 2026\u2022Update: 14 August 2026<\/p>\n<p>Turkish tennis player Zeynep Sonmez rallied to beat Australia\u2019s Daria Kasatkina 2-6, 7-6(4), 6-3 on Thursday and advance to the second round of the Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old recovered after losing the opening set, winning the second-set tiebreak 7-4 before taking the decider 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Sonmez converted six of seven break points, compared with six of 12 for Kasatkina, who committed 11 double faults.<\/p>\n<p>The players finished level with 95 points each, highlighting the closely contested nature of the match.<\/p>\n<p>Sonmez will face world No. 10 Amanda Anisimova from the US in the second round on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA) 1000 tournament is played on outdoor hard courts in the US state of Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halis Sunnetci 14 August 2026\u2022Update: 14 August 2026 Turkish tennis player Zeynep Sonmez rallied to beat Australia\u2019s Daria&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[180755,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-738321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sitekeywords","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738321","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=738321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}