{"id":360878,"date":"2024-01-18T18:15:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T19:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=360878"},"modified":"2024-01-18T20:02:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T20:02:24","slug":"american-stuns-with-cheeky-post-match-crowd-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=360878","title":{"rendered":"American stuns with cheeky post-match crowd act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Emma Navarro celebrated her second-round win over Italy&#x27;s Elisabetta Cocciaretto in the most Australian way possible.<\/p>\n<p>After defeating Cocciaretto 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, Navarro was signing autographs courtside at Kia Arena when a punter passed her a bottle of Carlton Dry beer.<\/p>\n<p>Unfazed, Cocciaretto accepted the beer, taking a swig before signing the bottle and handing it back to the fan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LIVE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/australian-open-2024-live-results-day-5-thanasi-kokkinakis-ajla-tomljanovic-max-purcell\/7b6ef71e-face-4bc2-bd30-c27dcce4ff25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Australian Open 2024 day five<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/australian-open-2024-alexander-zverev-fiery-press-conference-assault-trial\/8c1668e6-2de0-4c92-a691-46debe05edba\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"&#x27;Wow that&#x27;s the question&#x27;: Under-siege Zverev fumes\"><strong>&#x27;Wow that&#x27;s the question&#x27;: Under-siege Zverev fumes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/news-2024-robbie-slater-blasts-apl-disaster-warns-fa-boss-over-socceroos-broadcast-deal\/a41a18bd-7876-4eab-b531-54eec3507b18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>A-Leagues imploding as Slater blasts $30m &#x27;disaster&#x27;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"3c3f63ab-625f-47db-af98-c2c47eeca6ef\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/3c3f63ab-625f-47db-af98-c2c47eeca6ef\" alt=\"Emma Navarro takes a swing of a punter&#x27;s beer courtside.\" data-width=\"1371\" data-height=\"771\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;\ufeffShe just drank that beer and signed it,&quot; Mike Cation said in commentary.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;\ufeffRespect.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Navarro came from a set down\ufeff to win her tenth match of 2024 \u2014 the most of any female so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>After clinching the title at the Hobart International earlier this month, Navarro heads into the third round of a grand slam for the first time in her career.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch the 2024 Australian Open live and exclusive on Nine, <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/9now.app.link\/fPnKQ6gxndb\"><em><strong>9Now<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong> and ad-free on <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/9.nine.com.au\/kP5LRf\"><em><strong>Stan Sport<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite being the No.27 seed, \ufeffNavarro is largely unknown having played a lot of smaller tournaments and only having rocketed up the rankings in the last six months.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;ve just risen in the rankings quickly, and I&#x27;ve kind of been really under the radar,&quot; she told media post-match.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6345105396112\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pickerimage-82.jpg\" alt=\"Australian Open Highlights: Emma Navarro v Elisabetta Cocciaretto\" data-vms-id=\"ref:clrj1t1cx000a0jo9uwm7mtxg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Playing life ITFs last year where it doesn&#x27;t get a lot of coverage. A lot of people don&#x27;t know me. Hopefully, they will now or [are going to] going into the rest of the year.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Asked what people should know about her, Navarro gave an insight into her carefree demeanour.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff&quot;As a tennis player, I would want them to know that although I don&#x27;t show a lot of emotion, I&#x27;m always giving it 110 per cent,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It means the world to me. I&#x27;m going to always fight as hard as I can until the last point. Even if I&#x27;m not first-pumping or doing whatever, it doesn&#x27;t mean it matters any less to me.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I put my all into this. Results and rankings don&#x27;t come easily, although for someone like me, it looks like I just showed up in the rankings, but I&#x27;ve put in a lot of work in over the years and so has the team that I have around me.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It takes a lot of hard work, and it&#x27;s been a long time coming \u2014 it&#x27;s taken a lot of years to get here.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And I&#x27;m pretty easy-going off the court, pretty chill.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The No.27 seed will next face\ufeff Dayana Yastremska on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>American Emma Navarro celebrated her second-round win over Italy&#x27;s Elisabetta Cocciaretto in the most Australian way possible. After defeating Cocciaretto 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, Navarro was <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=360878\" title=\"American stuns with cheeky post-match crowd act\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":360880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360883,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360878\/revisions\/360883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/360880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}