{"id":15887,"date":"2025-06-16T17:31:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nottingham-open-hannah-klugman-beaten-by-yulia-putintseva-in-first-round-clara-tauson-advances\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T17:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:31:17","slug":"nottingham-open-hannah-klugman-beaten-by-yulia-putintseva-in-first-round-clara-tauson-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nottingham-open-hannah-klugman-beaten-by-yulia-putintseva-in-first-round-clara-tauson-advances\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Open: Hannah Klugman beaten by Yulia Putintseva in first round, Clara Tauson advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">British junior Hannah Klugman suffered defeat on her WTA main-draw debut as she lost to Yulia Putintseva at the Nottingham Open.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 16-year-old, runner-up in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cgmjd9d00v7o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">the French Open girls final<\/a> in May, fell 6-2 6-2 to world number 27 Putintseva in the first round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Klugman is one of a number of highly-rated British juniors, having won the prestigious Orange Bowl junior championships in Florida aged 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Putintseva was a step up in quality, with the Kazakh winning the Birmingham Classic title on grass last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I felt very uncomfortable on my first match on grass, having done a long period on clay, so I struggled today,&#8221; Klugman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a tough one against a top player &#8211; I&#8217;ve never played against someone like that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The crowd was amazing, as was the court. I just wish I could have played better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cx2j2xl06e0o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British junior Hannah Klugman suffered defeat on her WTA main-draw debut as she lost to Yulia Putintseva at the Nottingham Open. The 16-year-old, runner-up in the French Open girls final in May, fell 6-2 6-2 to world number 27 Putintseva in the first round. Klugman is one of a number of highly-rated British juniors, having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15887","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\/15887","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=15887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15889,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15887\/revisions\/15889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}