{"id":259608,"date":"2026-06-08T20:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259608\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T20:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:06:07","slug":"hsbc-championships-2026-results-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259608\/","title":{"rendered":"HSBC Championships 2026: Results & updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a rainy day in West London, the action finally got underway on the opening day at the HSBC Championships<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Headlining Monday’s winners is British wild card Harriet Dart<\/a>\u00a0who\u00a0battled through a testing opener against Liudmila Samsonova, winning 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 in two hours and 48 minutes.<\/p>\n

Dart was broken in the final game of the opening set, but showed great resilience to fight back against the world No.35. After levelling the match to a set apiece, the Briton converted three of her eight break point opportunities in the decider to reach the second round where she’ll take on fourth seed Belinda Bencic.<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere, world No.38 Jaqueline Cristian defeated last year\u2019s semi-finalist Qinwen Zheng 6-4, 7-6(4) to earn just her second ever main draw win on the grass.<\/p>\n

It was a strong start for Cristian, who was making her debut at The Queen’s Club this afternoon. The Romanian won 84% of points behind her first serve (37\/44) and found the decisive mini-break in the second set tie-break before punching her ticket to the second round as the 2024 Paris Olympic champion fired a forehand long.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Karolina Pliskova fought through a testing battle against reigning Lexus Nottingham Open champion McCartney Kessler – winning 6-7(1), 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n

Kessler fought back from 4-1 down to take the opening set tie-break, but former world No.1 Pliskova responded well – breaking the American five times across the second and third sets to seal victory on Court 1.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Katie Boulter<\/a> will return to court tomorrow after her match against former US Open finalist Leylah Fernandez was suspended due to daylight. The Brit lost the first set 6-3, but has raised her level in the second, with the scoreboard currently tied at 3-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a rainy day in West London, the action finally got underway on the opening day at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-259608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}