{"id":9115,"date":"2025-06-25T12:02:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T16:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/krejcikova-saves-match-points-again-to-survive-in-eastbourne\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T12:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T16:02:59","slug":"krejcikova-saves-match-points-again-to-survive-in-eastbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/krejcikova-saves-match-points-again-to-survive-in-eastbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Krejcikova saves match points again to survive in Eastbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Eastbourne, England &#8212; Wimbledon champion Barbora Klezikova saved match points for the second day in a row against British opponents to reach the quarterfinals of the Eastbourne WTA 250 event on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Czech was plagued by thigh tension and served 5-6 in the deciding set, and was about to get knocked out by Jodi Barage when he defeated 0-40, but somehow managed to win 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (3).<\/p>\n<p>Second seed Crezikova, who defeated Italy&#8217;s Jasmine Paolini to win last year&#8217;s Wimbledon title, was leading in set and serve breaks, but needed treatment on her feet.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked 164th in the world, Burrage played impressively to hit and break Krezikova&#8217;s serves to level the match.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old British was just ahead of the decider, but she couldn&#8217;t take one of the three match points that came her way, and the costly double fault on the tiebreak provided match points for Krejcikova, who didn&#8217;t make a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Klezikova, who saved match points against home player Harriet Dirt on Tuesday, won his first double singles match in a 2025 injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One more tough match,&#8221; Krejcikova, who has the crown of a French open single in her name, said in court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe British know how to play with grass, it&#8217;s difficult to play against them, but I&#8217;m happy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was experiencing difficult moments earlier this year, and I&#8217;m happy to be here and continue to find the level I can reach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastbourne, England &#8212; Wimbledon champion Barbora Klezikova saved match points for the second day in a row against British opponents to reach the quarterfinals of the Eastbourne WTA 250 event on Wednesday. The 29-year-old Czech was plagued by thigh tension and served 5-6 in the deciding set, and was about to get knocked out by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2860,2859,285,272,2600,2870,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-9115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-eastbourne","9":"tag-krejcikova","10":"tag-match","11":"tag-points","12":"tag-saves","13":"tag-survive","14":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115","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=9115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}