{"id":24320,"date":"2026-01-07T07:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T07:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/auckland-classic-francesca-jones-battles-injury-in-comeback-win-over-sinja-kraus\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T07:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T07:37:18","slug":"auckland-classic-francesca-jones-battles-injury-in-comeback-win-over-sinja-kraus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/auckland-classic-francesca-jones-battles-injury-in-comeback-win-over-sinja-kraus\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland Classic: Francesca Jones battles injury in comeback win over Sinja Kraus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British number three Jones broke into the top 100 last year, having won two WTA 125 titles &#8211; the rung below the main tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was previously told by doctors she would not play tennis professionally, having been born with a rare genetic condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones has Ectrodactyly Ectodermal Dysplasia (EEC), which means she has three fingers and a thumb on each hand, three toes on her right foot and four toes on her left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones struggled with the hot conditions in Auckland but battled back well, saving nine of the 13 break points she faced to advance in just over two hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She was unplayable the first set and a half and I found it really tough to get used to playing in the day compared to the night. It&#8217;s a lot quicker,&#8221; Jones added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones will play Chinese seventh seed Wang Xinyu for a place in the last four.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c4gr3w7qx17o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British number three Jones broke into the top 100 last year, having won two WTA 125 titles &#8211; the rung below the main tour. She was previously told by doctors she would not play tennis professionally, having been born with a rare genetic condition. Jones has Ectrodactyly Ectodermal Dysplasia (EEC), which means she has three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24320","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\/24320","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=24320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24322,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24320\/revisions\/24322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}