{"id":179065,"date":"2025-09-24T18:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/179065\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T18:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:06:13","slug":"china-open-katie-boulter-beats-hailey-baptiste-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/179065\/","title":{"rendered":"China Open: Katie Boulter beats Hailey Baptiste in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boulter will now face a tough task against Wimbledon and US Open runner-up Amanda Anisimova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has had a mixed year but, after tweaking her serve, registered an impressive victory over Japan&#8217;s Moyuka Uchijima to help Great Britain reach the Billie Jean King Cup semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She lost her next singles match 3-6 6-4 6-2 to world number seven Jessica Pegula as Britain were beaten 2-0 by the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, Novak Djokovic confirmed he will play in October&#8217;s Shanghai Masters &#8211; his first appearance since his US Open semi-final defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Serb has repeatedly said he will slim down his calendar to protect his body in the final years of his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 38-year-old reached the final in Shanghai last year but lost to Jannik Sinner, who was then the world number one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinner and current world number one Carlos Alcaraz both return to ATP Tour action in Beijing and Tokyo respectively this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boulter will now face a tough task against Wimbledon and US Open runner-up Amanda Anisimova. She has had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-179065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}