{"id":4661,"date":"2024-09-16T08:13:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T08:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/heather-watson-makes-winning-start-at-korea-open\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T08:13:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T08:13:38","slug":"heather-watson-makes-winning-start-at-korea-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/heather-watson-makes-winning-start-at-korea-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather Watson makes winning start at Korea Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former British number one Heather Watson beat Jia-Jing Lu in the opening round of the Korea Open.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Watson, who came through two rounds of qualifying, won 6-4 6-4 against China&#8217;s Lu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old broke Lu to take the opening set and a further break in the second set sealed a comfortable victory in Seoul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is only the third time Watson, 183rd in the world, has won a main draw match this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Watson will face either Ukrainian fifth seed Marta Kostyuk or Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands in round two.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cjd551d8n3eo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former British number one Heather Watson beat Jia-Jing Lu in the opening round of the Korea Open. Watson, who came through two rounds of qualifying, won 6-4 6-4 against China&#8217;s Lu. The 32-year-old broke Lu to take the opening set and a further break in the second set sealed a comfortable victory in Seoul. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4661","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\/4661","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=4661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4663,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions\/4663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}