It’s finals day at tournaments in Vienna, Basel, Tokyo and Guangzhou, as several of the world’s best players look to secure a title ahead of the closing months of the season.<\/p>\n
08:09 CET – We’ve already had our first winner of the day, with Belinda Bencic<\/a> clinching the title in Tokyo after a dominant 6-2, 6-3<\/a> victory over Czech rising star Linda Noskova<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bencic – who started the 2025 season ranked 421 after returning from maternity leave – picks up her 10th career title, and will rise to world number 11 as a result.<\/p>\n 08:00 CET – Good morning and welcome to our coverage of today’s finals in Vienna, Basel, Tokyo and Guangzhou!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s finals day at tournaments in Vienna, Basel, Tokyo and Guangzhou, as several of the world’s best players…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-241541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}