{"id":38885,"date":"2026-02-13T02:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/jack-pinnington-jones-through-to-first-atp-tour-quarter-final-at-dallas-open\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T02:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:42:12","slug":"jack-pinnington-jones-through-to-first-atp-tour-quarter-final-at-dallas-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/jack-pinnington-jones-through-to-first-atp-tour-quarter-final-at-dallas-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Pinnington Jones through to first ATP Tour quarter-final at Dallas Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Great Britain&#8217;s Jack Pinnington Jones is through to his first ATP Tour quarter-final as he continued his superb run at the Dallas Open.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old, who had to come through two rounds of qualifying to make the tournament&#8217;s main draw, followed up his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cre0jg74d4no\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">stunning victory over Italy&#8217;s world number 20 Flavio Cobolli<\/a> by beating American Eliot Spizzirri to reach the last eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pinnington Jones, ranked 181st in the world, overcame world number 68 Spizzirri in three sets, prevailing 7-6 (7-5) 4-6 7-6 (7-4).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will face former US Open champion Marin Cilic for a place in the semi-finals on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pinnington Jones completed his junior season at Texas Christian University in May but opted against returning for a final year in order to pursue a full-time tennis career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After losing his first qualifying match at the Australian Open in January, Pinnington Jones reached the final at the Soma Bay challenger event in Egypt before embarking on his four-match winning run in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is set to climb 43 places to 138th in the world after reaching the quarter-finals, and could enter the top 110 with victory over Cilic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina and top seed Iga Swiatek both suffered shock defeats at the Qatar Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number three Rybakina lost 7-5 4-6 6-4 to Canada&#8217;s Victoria Mboko, while Swiatek won the first set but fell to a 2-6 6-4 7-5 defeat by Maria Sakkari.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cly8v5dye29o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Britain&#8217;s Jack Pinnington Jones is through to his first ATP Tour quarter-final as he continued his superb run at the Dallas Open. The 22-year-old, who had to come through two rounds of qualifying to make the tournament&#8217;s main draw, followed up his stunning victory over Italy&#8217;s world number 20 Flavio Cobolli by beating American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38887,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38885\/revisions\/38887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}