{"id":9074,"date":"2025-06-24T19:56:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T23:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/barbora-krejcikova-saves-2-match-points-and-wins-the-eastbourne-opener\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T19:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T23:56:37","slug":"barbora-krejcikova-saves-2-match-points-and-wins-the-eastbourne-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/barbora-krejcikova-saves-2-match-points-and-wins-the-eastbourne-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbora Krejcikova saves 2 match points and wins the Eastbourne opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Wimbledon champion Barbora Klezikova saved two match points with a serve from British opponent Harriet Dirt and rallyed to win the opening match at the Grass Court Eastbourne Open on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dirt was 40-15 with a serve leading 5-4 in the decisive third set of 32 matches affected by the rain, where second-seeded Krezikova won 6-3, 6-7 (4), 7-5.<\/p>\n<p>This year was the second win for 17th place Krezikova, but that season didn&#8217;t begin until May due to a back injury.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Czech player came to Eastbourne for his final warm-up before starting his defense of the Wimbledon title next week. She lost in the first round in her previous Grass Court event at Queen&#8217;s Club in London.<\/p>\n<p>2021 US Open champion Emma Raducanu dropped the first set to win US Anne Lee 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-1. The next seventh seeded British player faces Australian teenager Maya Joint. The Mayan joint eliminated Ons Jabeur, who had Tunisia&#8217;s two-inning Wimbledon beat the finalist twice on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth seeded American Sofia Kenin lost her opening match 6-4, 6-4 with 77th Australian Kimberly Burrell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wimbledon champion Barbora Klezikova saved two match points with a serve from British opponent Harriet Dirt and rallyed to win the opening match at the Grass Court Eastbourne Open on Tuesday. Dirt was 40-15 with a serve leading 5-4 in the decisive third set of 32 matches affected by the rain, where second-seeded Krezikova won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2858,2860,2859,285,2861,272,2600,24,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-9074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-barbora","9":"tag-eastbourne","10":"tag-krejcikova","11":"tag-match","12":"tag-opener","13":"tag-points","14":"tag-saves","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-wins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}