{"id":897419,"date":"2026-10-28T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897419\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:30:10","slug":"joint-extends-asian-form-with-tokyo-quarter-final-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897419\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint extends Asian form with Tokyo quarter-final berth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/4697b917-4021-468e-8dd9-900d0422b5eb.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Maya Joint won through to the quarter-finals of the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo. (James Ross\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n<p>Maya Joint has extended her impressive run in Asia, beating Spain&#8217;s Cristina Bucsa in the round of 16 at the Pac Pacific Open in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>A day after ousting sixth seed Sorana Cirstea, the Australian triumphed 6-1 2-6 6-4 on Wednesday, setting up a quarter-final clash with Uzbekistan&#8217;s Kamilla Rakhimova.<\/p>\n<p>Currently ranked No.94, Joint continued her recent resurgence, after she made the final at last month&#8217;s Korea Open in Seoul before compatriot Kim Birrell claimed her first WTA title with a 6-4 6-2 win in the decider.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">W in the bag \ud83d\udd25  Maya Joint defeats Bucsa 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 in Tokyo to advance to the quarterfinals.  #torayppo https:\/\/t.co\/yTnr0VFGfF<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 wta (@WTA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WTA\/status\/2115333216382882013?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">October 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rakhimova advanced with a marathon 6-4 4-6 7-6 (7-5) win over Ekaterina Alexandrova.<\/p>\n<p>Joint&#8217;s countrywoman Talia Gibson was also contending for a spot in the quarter-finals, facing rising star Alexandra Eala, the eighth seed, later on Wednesday.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rightsportal.copyright.com.au\/licensing\/general-enquiry\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"license-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">License this article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maya Joint won through to the quarter-finals of the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo. (James Ross\/AAP PHOTOS) Maya&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[136631,136632,1246,136633,4,17956,17959,3,17957,17955,17958,99,428,5986,965],"class_list":["post-897419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-aap","tag-aapnews","tag-australia","tag-australian-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-daily-news","tag-global-news","tag-news","tag-news-app","tag-news-headlines","tag-news-today","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-today-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897419","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=897419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}