{"id":599822,"date":"2026-04-22T15:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/599822\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:39:14","slug":"turkish-tennis-player-zeynep-sonmez-advances-to-2nd-round-at-madrid-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/599822\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish tennis player Zeynep Sonmez advances to 2nd round at Madrid Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asiye Latife Yilmaz<\/p>\n<p>22 April 2026\u2022Update: 22 April 2026<\/p>\n<p>Turkish national tennis player Zeynep Sonmez on Wednesday advanced to the second round of the Madrid Open after defeating Spain\u2019s Carlota Martinez Cirez in two straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked 67th in the world, Sonmez faced world No. 352 Martinez Cirez in the first round of the tournament held in the Spanish capital.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old saved three set points to take the opening set 7-5 before sealing the second set 6-2 to secure a 2-0 victory and her spot in the next round at the WTA 1000 event.<\/p>\n<p>Sonmez will face Spain\u2019s 27th seed Cristina Bucsa in the second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asiye Latife Yilmaz 22 April 2026\u2022Update: 22 April 2026 Turkish national tennis player Zeynep Sonmez on Wednesday advanced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[261065,99,428],"class_list":["post-599822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sitekeywords","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599822","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=599822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}