{"id":88393,"date":"2026-09-28T00:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T16:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=88393"},"modified":"2026-09-28T00:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T16:57:23","slug":"sunday-lessons-at-the-singapore-tennis-open-faith-defiance-defeat-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=88393","title":{"rendered":"Sunday lessons at the Singapore Tennis Open: Faith, defiance, defeat, dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text-primary article-summary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In the players\u2019 lounge, late on the evening of Sept 27, an Australian portrait in grace. It\u2019s barely an hour after the final, defeat barely digested, the bruises of disappointment still fresh, but Talia Gibson, just 22, is fine with another question. Sure. Go ahead. Ask. She admittedly didn\u2019t play her best and yet this is a young woman at her best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">It\u2019s been a rugged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/sport\/tennis\/shopping-on-the-cards-as-leylah-fernandez-wins-singapore-tennis-open-for-first-title-of-2026?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><span class=\"inline font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"typography-test-id\">Singapore Tennis Open final<\/span><\/a>, especially the first set, where the dynamic Leylah Fernandez breaks serve, then Gibson breaks back, then the Canadian breaks again, and the Australian breaks back. Tension slyly creeps into joints and overthinking\u00a0impedes decision-making.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/sport\/sunday-lessons-at-the-singapore-tennis-open-faith-defiance-defeat-dignity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the players\u2019 lounge, late on the evening of Sept 27, an Australian portrait in grace. It\u2019s barely an hour after the final, defeat barely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}