{"id":5225,"date":"2024-09-29T19:39:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T19:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/scotlands-jacob-fearnley-breaks-into-top-100-after-fourth-title-of-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-09-29T19:39:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T19:39:26","slug":"scotlands-jacob-fearnley-breaks-into-top-100-after-fourth-title-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/scotlands-jacob-fearnley-breaks-into-top-100-after-fourth-title-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland&#8217;s Jacob Fearnley breaks into top 100 after fourth title of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Scotland&#8217;s Jacob Fearnley is set to break into the top 100 of the men&#8217;s singles world rankings after winning his fourth title of the year on the Challenger Tour.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old from Edinburgh beat Frenchman Harold Mayot, who had gone into the tournament one place above in 125th in the world, 6-3 7-6 to win the Orleans Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having taken the first set, the Scot then won a second-set tie-break 7-5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fearnley recently graduated from Texas Christian University and impressed at Wimbledon this summer, taking a set off seven-time winner Novak Djokovic in the second round before losing 6-3 6-4 5-7 7-5. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having started the year outside the world&#8217;s top 600, he has since also won titles in Nottingham, Lincoln (USA) and Rennes and will be ranked 98th in the world when the rankings are updated on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cvgxvqp88pjo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland&#8217;s Jacob Fearnley is set to break into the top 100 of the men&#8217;s singles world rankings after winning his fourth title of the year on the Challenger Tour. The 23-year-old from Edinburgh beat Frenchman Harold Mayot, who had gone into the tournament one place above in 125th in the world, 6-3 7-6 to win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5225","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\/5225","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=5225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5227,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions\/5227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}