{"id":21760,"date":"2026-06-18T13:58:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=21760"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:12:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T06:12:05","slug":"gibson-soars-into-nottingham-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2026\/06\/18\/gibson-soars-into-nottingham-quarters","title":{"rendered":"Gibson soars into Nottingham quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Talia Gibson brought in her 22nd birthday in style, triumphing against 2024 Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen with a straight-sets victory in Nottingham.<\/p>\n<p>The West Australian prevailed 6-3 7-6(10) in just under two hours to progress to her maiden WTA grasscourt quarterfinal.<\/p>\n<p>After\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/fan-zone\/news\/2026\/06\/16\/gibson-preston-win-in-nottingham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saving two match points against local Francesca Jones<\/a> in her opening match, Gibson\u2019s composure under pressure helped her progress over Zheng, a former world No..4. and AO 2024 finalist.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Chinese star recording 13 aces to Gibson&#8217;s four, it was the latter whose serve was most impactful. Gibson won eight of her last nine service points to claim the opening set, then saved three set points in a second-set tiebreak, two of those on her serve to advance.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson faces either 2021 Wimbledon finalist Karolina Pliskova or American Caty McNally in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow West Aussie Taylah Preston will hope to join her compatriot in the final eight of Nottingham and Queen\u2019s, respectively, when she competes on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talia Gibson brought in her 22nd birthday in style, triumphing against 2024 Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen with a straight-sets victory in Nottingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6359,"featured_media":21761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}