{"id":209814,"date":"2025-06-24T07:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209814\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T07:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:41:08","slug":"tennis-hoves-sonay-kartal-goes-into-eastbourne-with-top-30-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209814\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis: Hove&#8217;s Sonay Kartal goes into Eastbourne with top 30 goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Tennis player Sonay Kartal says she has set herself a target of breaking into the world&#8217;s top 30 by the end of the year.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kartal, from Hove, East Sussex, makes her Eastbourne singles debut on Tuesday, against third seed Elena Ostapenko.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She kicked off her campaign in the doubles alongside fellow Brit Jodie Burrage with a victory on Monday over Americans Hailey Baptiste and Peyton Stearns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also said she was looking forward to the prospect of playing British number one and former US Open champion Emma Raducanu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis player Sonay Kartal says she has set herself a target of breaking into the world&#8217;s top 30&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-209814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114737216510577294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}