Alejandro Davidovich Fokina won the Chengdu Open on Tuesday, seeing off Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz in a hard-fought contest 6-4, 7-6(7).<\/p>\n
The Spaniard notched his second career title in a protracted encounter<\/a> in central China that was decided by fine margins.<\/p>\n The world number 28 logged the match’s only break of serve in the seventh game and saw out the first set comfortably.<\/p>\n Hurkacz<\/a>, ranked 41st, dug deep but squandered a 6-3 lead in the second-set tie-break to hand his opponent the victory.<\/p>\n Davidovich Fokina<\/a> was seeded second for the ATP 250 event, while Hurkacz was seeded fifth.<\/p>\n Top seed Valentin Vacherot<\/a> was eliminated in the round of 16 by South African qualifier Lloyd Harris<\/a>, ranked 125th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alejandro Davidovich Fokina won the Chengdu Open on Tuesday, seeing off Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz in a hard-fought contest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-786902","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\/786902","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=786902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}