{"id":333588,"date":"2026-08-31T05:04:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333588\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T05:04:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:04:50","slug":"tennis-wta-us-open-2026-vekic-beats-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333588\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis, WTA \u2013 US Open 2026: Vekic beats Gibson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gibson is a more dangerous first-round draw than her record suggests. The 22-year-old has six career wins over top-40 opponents, the best of them against Jasmine Paolini at Indian Wells this year when the Italian was ranked World No. 7, and she won five of six games from 1-4 down in the second set. But she was 0-1 at this tournament and has never won a match at Roland-Garros or Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vekic reached the Wimbledon semi-finals in 2024 and took Olympic silver in Paris weeks later. This is her 12th main draw at Flushing Meadows, more than at any other major, and the quarter-final she made in 2019 is still her best run here. Ranked No. 34, she plays American No. 29 seed Ann Li or her compatriot Antonia Ruzic next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gibson is a more dangerous first-round draw than her record suggests. The 22-year-old has six career wins over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-333588","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\/333588","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=333588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}