{"id":788398,"date":"2026-10-01T09:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788398\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:32:11","slug":"china-open-sonay-kartal-wins-on-return-arthur-fery-beaten-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788398\/","title":{"rendered":"China Open: Sonay Kartal wins on return, Arthur Fery beaten in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain’s Sonay Kartal won on her return to the WTA Tour after almost six months out with injury as she beat Andrea Lazaro Garcia at the China Open.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old injured her lower back at Indian Wells in March and only made her return to tennis<\/a> at the Billie Jean King Cup on 22 September.<\/p>\n

Kartal, who narrowly lost to Czech world number 26 Marie Bouzkova on that return last week, produced a confident performance in Beijing to beat Spain’s Lazaro Garcia 6-2 6-3.<\/p>\n

The Briton broke the qualifier’s serve five times – helped by four double faults from her opponent – and landed 69% of her first serves.<\/p>\n

World number 129 Kartal will face Chinese 31st seed Wang Xinyu next as she bids to work her way back up the world rankings.<\/p>\n

Fellow Britons Harriet Dart and Cameron Norrie both play later on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, British number one Arthur Fery fell 6-4 3-6 6-4 to Portuguese lucky loser Jaime Faria in the Japan Open first round.<\/p>\n

Denmark’s Holger Rune also lost on his first ATP Tour appearance for almost a year.<\/p>\n

Former world number four Rune tore his Achilles tendon in October 2025 and has since dropped out of the top 100.<\/p>\n

He was beaten 6-3 6-1 by France’s Kyrian Jacquet in Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s Sonay Kartal won on her return to the WTA Tour after almost six months out with injury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-788398","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\/788398","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=788398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}