{"id":226538,"date":"2023-10-18T00:20:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T18:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=226538"},"modified":"2023-10-18T00:20:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T18:50:55","slug":"taylor-fritz-and-casper-ruud-advance-in-tokyo-top-two-seeded-players-out-of-jiangxi-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/10\/18\/taylor-fritz-and-casper-ruud-advance-in-tokyo-top-two-seeded-players-out-of-jiangxi-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Fritz and Casper Ruud advance in Tokyo, top two seeded players out of Jiangxi Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">TOKYO, 17 Oct: Top-seeded Taylor Fritz and second-seeded Casper Ruud both won their opening matches Tuesday at the Japan Open.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fritz beat 18th-ranked Cameron Norrie 6-4, 6-3 and Ruud defeated wild-card entry Yosuke Watanuki 7-6 (8), 6-3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fritz, ranked 10th in the world, had 13 aces and broke Norrie three times to improve to 7-6 against the British player.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 25-year-old American will next play Japanese wild-card Shintaro Mochi-zuki, who beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-4, 7-6 (5).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ruud will next face American player Marcus Giron.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other winners included Alex de Minaur, Alexei Popyrin, Ben Shelton, Cristian Garin and Diego Schwatzman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jiangxi Open<br \/>\nTop-seeded Beatriz Haddad-Maia and second-seeded Magda Linette were both eliminated in the first round of the Jiangxi Open.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nao Hibino upset Haddad-Maia 7-6 (2), 6-3, while Valeria Savinykh beat Linette 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (3).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sixth-seeded Anna Blinkova also lost, falling to Chinese qualifier You Xiaodi 6-1, 6-1, while Hong Kong Open winner Leylah Fernandez defeated wild-card Guo Hanyu 6-1, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other winners included Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Varvara Gravach and Ulrikke Eikeri. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, 17 Oct: Top-seeded Taylor Fritz and second-seeded Casper Ruud both won their opening matches Tuesday at the Japan Open. Fritz beat 18th-ranked Cameron Norrie 6-4, 6-3 and Ruud defeated wild-card entry Yosuke Watanuki 7-6 (8), 6-3. Fritz, ranked 10th in the world, had 13 aces and broke Norrie three times to improve to 7-6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-226538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}