{"id":798954,"date":"2026-08-02T08:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T08:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/798954\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T08:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T08:23:09","slug":"win-and-loss-for-kiwi-tennis-players-in-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/798954\/","title":{"rendered":"Win and loss for Kiwi tennis players in finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe (right) and Indonesia’s Aldilta Sutjiadi after winning the title at the Washington 500 WTA title PHOTO: WTA<\/p>\n

Mixed fortunes for New Zealanders in WTA and ATP doubles finals in the United States and Mexico.<\/p>\n

Erin Routliffe won the Mubadala DC Open Women’s Doubles title! with Aldila Sutjiadi from Indonesia 6-4, 6-1 against Japand’s Makoto Ninomiya and Andreja Klepa\u010d of Slovenia. <\/p>\n

It’s the 13th career title for Routliffe and second with Sutjiadi after Austin in 2023.<\/p>\n

The DC Open is a WTA 500 event, which moves Routliffe n back into the WTA top 10.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile at the ATP Los Cabos tournament in Mexico Finn Reynolds and James Watt came very close to their first title at 250 level.<\/p>\n

They eventually lost 7-6(4), 6-7(5), 10-8 in one hour 49 minutes to American pair Ryann Seggerman and Patrick Trhac.<\/p>\n

It is the best-career result for Reynolds from Hawke’s Bay and Timaru’s James Watt and has them sitting at 80 and 81 in the current ATP rankings. <\/p>\n

Reynolds is playing doubles at the Lexington Challenger this week while another New Zealander Jack Loutit is in the doubles main draw with American Eli Stephenson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe (right) and Indonesia’s Aldilta Sutjiadi after winning the title at the Washington 500 WTA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-798954","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\/798954","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=798954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}