{"id":5558,"date":"2023-02-06T15:16:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T15:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/thailand-open-heather-watson-beaten-by-wang-xinyu-in-quarter-finals\/"},"modified":"2023-02-06T15:16:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T15:16:16","slug":"thailand-open-heather-watson-beaten-by-wang-xinyu-in-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/thailand-open-heather-watson-beaten-by-wang-xinyu-in-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand Open: Heather Watson beaten by Wang Xinyu in quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Watson reached a career-high 38 in the world rankings in 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Heather Watson is out of the Thailand Open after a three-set defeat by Chinese seventh seed Wang Xinyu in the quarter-finals.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The British number six was beaten 3-6 7-6 4-6 in Hua Hin.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It was the 30-year-old’s first last-eight appearance since reaching the semi-finals of the Birmingham Classic in June 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite defeat, Watson – currently 160th in WTA rankings – will return to the world’s top 150.<\/span><\/p>\n

After an even start Wang, 21, reeled off four straight games on her way to taking the first set in 45 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

There were eight breaks of serve in the second set where Watson led 4-1 at one stage before being pegged back, eventually taking it on a tie break.<\/span><\/p>\n

The deciding set was much closer, with Wang making the decisive break in the seventh game before twice holding serve to seal the win.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Watson reached a career-high 38 in the world rankings in 2015 Heather Watson is out of the Thailand Open after a three-set defeat by Chinese seventh seed Wang Xinyu in the quarter-finals. The British number six was beaten 3-6 7-6 4-6 in Hua Hin. It was the 30-year-old’s first last-eight appearance since reaching the semi-finals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5559,"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\/5558"}],"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=5558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5560,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions\/5560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}