{"id":5215,"date":"2026-06-30T00:35:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/?p=5215"},"modified":"2026-06-30T00:47:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:47:49","slug":"sea-rises-up-tjen-sawangkaew-knock-out-seeded-players-in-wimbledon-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/sea-rises-up-tjen-sawangkaew-knock-out-seeded-players-in-wimbledon-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"SEA rises up: Tjen, Sawangkaew knock out seeded players in Wimbledon opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southeast Asian tennis enjoyed a memorable start to Wimbledon 2026 after Indonesia&#8217;s Janice Tjen and Thailand&#8217;s Mananchaya Sawangkaew both eliminated seeded opponents to reach the second round on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Tjen defeated 22nd seed Leylah Fernandez 6-1, 7-6(3), extending her perfect record over the Canadian to 3-0 this season following previous victories at the Australian Open and Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qPJAvkAg1s4?si=QXKd8tE61HQl7zSJ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Qualifier Sawangkaew produced one of the biggest upsets of the opening day after rallying from a set down and saving a match point to beat 2026 Roland Garros finalist Maja Chwalinska 2-6, 7-5, 6-2 for her maiden Grand Slam main-draw victory.<\/p>\n<p>The result also made Sawangkaew the first Thai player to win a Wimbledon singles main-draw match since Luksika Kumkhum reached the second round in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WAiYj_KYEmc?si=KZAifexduQ2j5fz3\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fellow Thai Lanlana Tararudee also progressed after defeating Austria&#8217;s Lilli Tagger, giving Southeast Asia three representatives in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Attention now turns to Filipino star Alexandra Eala, who opens her Wimbledon singles campaign on Tuesday against Mexico&#8217;s Renata Zarazua, in which a victory would cap an outstanding opening round for Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The Wimbledon Championships continue live on SPOTV NOW.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hYShneU3uyc?si=zb28N-3wmr7mAf-I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southeast Asian tennis enjoyed a memorable start to Wimbledon 2026 after Indonesia&#8217;s Janice Tjen and Thailand&#8217;s Mananchaya Sawangkaew both eliminated seeded opponents to reach the second round on Monday. Tjen defeated 22nd seed Leylah Fernandez 6-1, 7-6(3), extending her perfect record over the Canadian to 3-0 this season following previous victories at the Australian Open &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/sea-rises-up-tjen-sawangkaew-knock-out-seeded-players-in-wimbledon-opener\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SEA rises up: Tjen, Sawangkaew knock out seeded players in Wimbledon opener<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[264,375],"class_list":["post-5215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-tennis-en","tag-wimbledon-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5220,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions\/5220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}