{"id":11099,"date":"2025-02-24T20:55:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/dubai-duty-free-championshp-karen-khachanov-beats-dan-evans-in-first-round\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:55:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:55:22","slug":"dubai-duty-free-championshp-karen-khachanov-beats-dan-evans-in-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/dubai-duty-free-championshp-karen-khachanov-beats-dan-evans-in-first-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Duty Free Championshp: Karen Khachanov beats Dan Evans in first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Britain&#8217;s Dan Evans lost to Russian Karen Khachanov in the first round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Evans, who received a wildcard for the tournament, had won all five of their previous meetings, including a five-and-a-half-hour classic at last year&#8217;s US Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, world number 24 Khachanov triumphed 6-1 6-3 in one hour 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will face Greek fourth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas or Lorenzo Sonego of Italy in the second round.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cy4lpwxnqqyo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Dan Evans lost to Russian Karen Khachanov in the first round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship. Evans, who received a wildcard for the tournament, had won all five of their previous meetings, including a five-and-a-half-hour classic at last year&#8217;s US Open. However, world number 24 Khachanov triumphed 6-1 6-3 in one hour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11101,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099\/revisions\/11101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}