{"id":255300,"date":"2025-11-01T11:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T11:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255300\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T11:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T11:05:15","slug":"hong-kong-tennis-open-victoria-mboko-battles-past-leylah-fernandez-to-join-bucsa-in-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255300\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Tennis Open: Victoria Mboko battles past Leylah Fernandez to join Bucsa in final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Victoria Mboko fought back to beat Leylah Fernandez in an all-Canadian encounter to reach the final of the Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 19-year-old recovered from a set down in the second semi-final against an initially buoyant Fernandez, who lost her way after calling for the physiotherapist early in the second set.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">With her lower right thigh bandaged, Fernandez appeared preoccupied and momentum swung dramatically to Mboko, who grew in assertiveness as she proceeded to win 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Earlier, Cristina Bucsa raced into the final, brushing aside Maya Joint in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A dominant display from Bucsa showed no mercy to her struggling Australian opponent, whose title hopes were ended by a 6-3, 6-1 margin at Victoria Park Tennis Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cristina Bucsa in control against Maya Joint on Saturday. Photo: Dickson Lee\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7e228abf-af63-48f7-8c83-dc3348a867ab_820ab2bf.jpg\" title=\"Cristina Bucsa in control against Maya Joint on Saturday. Photo: Dickson Lee\"\/>Cristina Bucsa in control against Maya Joint on Saturday. Photo: Dickson Lee<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Joint, the world No 32, matched 29th-ranked Bucsa blow for blow in the early games, before the wheels came off the former\u2019s campaign as the first set reached a decisive stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victoria Mboko fought back to beat Leylah Fernandez in an all-Canadian encounter to reach the final of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,81,124801,147831,150745,21590,31229,150746,85,747,27517,148740],"class_list":["post-255300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian","tag-canadian","tag-cristina-bucsa","tag-hong-kong-tennis-open","tag-leylah-fernandez","tag-maya-joint","tag-prudential","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-victoria-mboko","tag-victoria-park-tennis-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255300","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=255300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}