{"id":1158218,"date":"2026-02-06T18:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/?p=1158218"},"modified":"2026-02-06T18:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:43:08","slug":"pakistan-take-early-lead-against-senegal-in-davis-cup-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/pakistan-take-early-lead-against-senegal-in-davis-cup-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan take early lead against Senegal in Davis Cup tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">ISLAMABAD, Feb 06 (APP): Pakistan made a strong start against Senegal in the Davis Cup Group II tie as both Pakistani players won their opening singles matches on the first day of the contest on Friday.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Muzammil Murtaza gave Pakistan the perfect start by defeating Senegal\u2019s Nicolas Jadoun in a closely fought match, winning 6-3, 1-6, 7-5 to put Pakistan 1-0 ahead in the tie.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the second singles, experienced campaigner Aqeel Khan further strengthened Pakistan\u2019s position with a hard-earned victory over Seydina Andre. Aqeel won the match 6-7, 7-6, 6-2, extending Pakistan\u2019s lead to 2-0 at the end of the opening day.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Davis Cup tie will continue on Friday with the doubles match, where Pakistan\u2019s pair of Muzammil Murtaza and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi are scheduled to face Senegal\u2019s Seydina Andre and Nicolas Jadoun.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan now need just one more win to seal the Davis Cup Group II tie against Senegal.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Feb 06 (APP): Pakistan made a strong start against Senegal in the Davis Cup Group II tie as both Pakistani players won their opening singles matches on the first day of the contest on Friday. Muzammil Murtaza gave Pakistan the perfect start by defeating Senegal\u2019s Nicolas Jadoun in a closely fought match, winning 6-3,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1158221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[7424,7559,7560],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1158218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-davis-cup","tag-pakistani-players","tag-senegal","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1158221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158218"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1158218"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1158218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}