{"id":654607,"date":"2026-05-20T15:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654607\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:11:08","slug":"draw-build-up-ten-unseeded-danger-men-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654607\/","title":{"rendered":"Draw build-up: Ten unseeded danger men &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thiago Tirante (Arg), world No.58<\/p>\n<p>Having grown up grinding it out on the clay courts of La Plata, Argentina, it stood to reason Roland-Garros was where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/41715-ta.tirante\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tirante<\/a> won his first Grand Slam match in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The now 25-year-old has raised it a notch in 2026 thanks to some of the biggest serving on tour, with victories over top-20 opponents Cameron Norrie and Cobolli to reach the fourth round at the Rome Masters.<\/p>\n<p>It followed wins over the experienced Roberto Bautista Agut and 15th seed Tommy Paul to reach third round in Madrid and a second ATP semifinal in Houston on clay, where he foiled top seed Ben Shelton. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thiago Tirante (Arg), world No.58 Having grown up grinding it out on the clay courts of La Plata,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-654607","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\/654607","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=654607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}