{"id":25321,"date":"2025-07-27T05:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25321\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T05:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:57:11","slug":"tennis-tracker-kalinskaya-fernandez-fokina-de-minaur-to-face-off-in-washington-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25321\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Tracker: Kalinskaya-Fernandez, Fokina-De Minaur to face-off in Washington finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s finals day at 250 events in Kitzbuhel, Prague and Umag, while the ATP and WTA tournaments in Washington get set for some intriguing semi-finals.<\/p>\n

05:50 CET –\u00a0Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/a> defeats world’s No. 8 Ben Shelton<\/a> 6-2, 7-5<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Davidovich Fokina has now recorded back-to-back wins against America’s No. 1 and No. 2. He now heads to his fourth final to take on Alex De Minaur<\/a>.<\/p>\n

04:10 CET –\u00a0Alex De Minaur<\/a> takes down Corentin Moutet<\/a> 6-4, 6-3<\/a> with 17 of 21 net points won, making it his 20th hard-court win of the year.<\/p>\n

De Minaur now returns to the DC Open final for the second time, previously moving on to the final round when he was 19 years old in 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n

03:00 CET – Anna Kalinskaya<\/a> defeats Emma Raducanu<\/a> in straight sets 6-4, 6-3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This now marks eight straight set wins for Kalinskaya as she reaches her third-career final, her first ever in Washington. She will face Leylah Fernandez<\/a>, who took down Elena Rybakina earlier<\/a> in three sets.<\/p>\n

23:52 CET –\u00a0Leylah Fernandez<\/a> is the first woman into the Washington decider, having just beaten Elena Rybakina<\/a>\u00a06-7, 7-6, 7-6<\/a>\u00a0in the opening semi-final in the US capital.<\/p>\n

The Canadian rallied back from being 7-6, 5-3 down to upset the third-seeded Kazakh, who will be sorely disappointed not to have finished off the job from that position.<\/p>\n

Fernandez will face the winner of\u00a0Anna Kalinskaya<\/a> and Emma Raducanu<\/a> in tomorrow’s final.<\/p>\n

You can follow the second semi-final here.<\/a><\/p>\n

22:09 CET – Luciano Darderi<\/a> has beaten Carlos Taberner<\/a> 6-3, 6-3<\/a> to claim the crown in Umag, Croatia!<\/p>\n

The second-seeded Italian is in a rich vein of form, having claimed back-to-back titles in Umag and Bastad last week.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old has now won four ATP 250 events, three this year, and all of them have come on clay.<\/p>\n

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21:00 CET –\u00a0Play started a bit late in the Umag decider, but it is underway – you can follow that clash here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What’s more, the action in Washington has started for the evening, with the women’s semi-finals first up.<\/p>\n

Leylah Fernandez<\/a> is taking on Elena Rybakina<\/a> currently, with Anna Kalinskaya<\/a> and Emma Raducanu<\/a> to follow.<\/p>\n

Follow the women’s action in Washington here.<\/a><\/p>\n

19:10 CET – We’re just 50 minutes away from the third final of the day, as second seed Luciano Darderi<\/a> comes up against Carlos Taberner<\/a> in the Umag showpiece event.<\/p>\n

Follow the clash from 20:00 CET here.<\/a><\/p>\n

16:30 CET – In an all-Czech final at the Livesport Prague Open, Marie Bouzkova<\/a> has recovered from a set down to defeat top seed Linda Noskova<\/a> 2-6, 6-1, 6-3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s a second career WTA title for Bouzkova, who also captured the crown in Prague back in 2022, having beaten Noskova en route<\/a> that year too!<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old Czech becomes the fifth player to defeat the top seed in a WTA final in 2025, after Madison Keys<\/a> (Adelaide, Australian Open), Mirra Andreeva<\/a> (Indian Wells), Jelena Ostapenko<\/a> (Stuttgart) and Coco Gauff<\/a> (Roland Garros).<\/p>\n

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16:14 CET – The recent resurgence of Alexander Bublik<\/a> shows no signs of slowing down!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Having already claimed titles in Halle and Gstaad this summer, the mercurial Kazakh has continued his superb form, seeing off Arthur Cazaux<\/a> 6-4, 6-3<\/a> in the Kitzbuhel final this afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That’s now seven ATP titles for Bublik, who has won 17 of his last 19 matches on Tour.<\/p>\n

14:40 CET –\u00a0The day’s second final – the Kitzbuhel decider between Alexander Bublik<\/a> and Arthur Cazaux<\/a> – is underway now as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Follow the action live with Flashscore here.<\/a><\/p>\n

13:42 CET –\u00a0Linda Noskova<\/a> and Marie Bouzkova<\/a> will compete for the Livesport Prague Open title this afternoon, as the Czech duo target silverware on home soil.<\/p>\n

The pair have met three times before, with Bouzkova leading the head-to-head 2-1, although Noskova won their most recent meeting at the Australian Open last year. In 2022, the pair met in the semi-finals as Bouzkova came out on top.<\/p>\n

Follow the final from 14:00 CET here.<\/a><\/p>\n

11:48 CET – We’re just over a couple of hours away from our first final of the day, as top seed Linda Noskova<\/a> takes on compatriot Marie Bouzkova<\/a> in the Prague showpiece at 14:00 CET<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shortly after, Alexander Bublik<\/a> faces Arthur Cazaux<\/a> in the Kitzbuhel final, with the in-form Kazakh looking to win a second successive tournament following his success in Gstaad last week.<\/p>\n

Then, later this evening, second seed Luciano Darderi<\/a> comes up against Spain’s Carlos Taberner<\/a> in Umag. That final is due to get underway at 20:00 CET<\/a>.<\/p>\n

09:24 CET – Before we look ahead to today’s finals in Europe, there was a shock result in the early hours of the morning in Washington, with top seed Taylor Fritz<\/a> throwing away a 5-2 lead in the final set to lose 7-6(3), 3-6, 7-5<\/a> against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/a> in over three hours.<\/p>\n

09:00 CET –\u00a0Good morning and welcome to our coverage of today’s tennis!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s finals day at 250 events in Kitzbuhel, Prague and Umag, while the ATP and WTA tournaments in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-25321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25321","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=25321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}