{"id":23936,"date":"2026-06-24T13:40:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/23936\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:40:48","slug":"tennis-harris-into-third-round-of-wimbledon-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/23936\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis: Harris into third round of Wimbledon qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/312063-1.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo Credit: Billy Harris instagram (@billyrh_)<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Former Island player wins in straight sets in Roehampton\n        <\/p>\n<p>Former Island tennis competitor, Billy Harris has progressed to the third round of the 2026 Wimbledon qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old has beaten Hungarian competitor, Zsombor Piros in straight sets (6-4, 6-4) during the second phase of the Gentleman&#8217;s Singles qualifying phase.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a second victory in as many days for Harris who dispatched Italian player, Stefano Napolitano in the previous stage.<\/p>\n<p>After conceding the opening game to his opponent, Harris responded with three games in a row to take control of set one.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a more back-and-forth exchange of games following this, it was Harris who would claim the first set.<\/p>\n<p>Into set two, and play was suspended for a short time due to a fault with the electrical line system after Piros had surged into a two-game lead.<\/p>\n<p>Harris fought back when play resumed to take control and move onto a 4-2 advantage and, despite a late charge from Piros, the former Albany and Castletown competitor went on to secure a second and decisive set.<\/p>\n<p>Currently ranked 140th in the ATP World Rankings, Harris is aiming to secure a place in the upcoming Wimbledon main draw which he has featured in over the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    More from Isle of Man Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Credit: Billy Harris instagram (@billyrh_) Former Island player wins in straight sets in Roehampton Former Island tennis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,3003,6708,6709,6710,3093,54,6711,28],"class_list":["post-23936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-music","tag-news","tag-presenters","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}