We’ve reached the latter stages of tune-up tournaments in Monterrey, Cleveland and Winston-Salem, as several players on the ATP and WTA Tours look to build valuable momentum ahead of the US Open.<\/p>\n
06:00 CET –\u00a0After Alexandrova and Bouzkova went back on the court to warm up before resuming play, the match re-entered its delay due to rain.<\/p>\n
05:10 CET – Play between Ekaterina Alexandrova and Marie Bouzkova will remain suspended for another 45 minutes to an hour due to rain in Monterrey.<\/p>\n
04:10 CET – The matchup between Ekaterina Alexandrova and Marie Bouzkova<\/a> is currently suspended in the first set due to rain.\u00a0<\/p>\n 03:50 CET – Ann Li takes down Xinyu Wang 6-3, 5-7, 6-4<\/a> after almost two-and-a-half hours in Cleveland.<\/p>\n 03:00 CET – Meanwhile, in Monterrey, Diana Shnaider<\/a> holds on to defeat Alycia Parks<\/a> 6-3, 7-6<\/a> to advance to the final.<\/p>\n 02:45 CET – Over in Winston-Salem, Botic Van De Zandschulp<\/a> upsets world No. 29 Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard<\/a> in straight sets 6-4, 7-5<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n 01:00 CET – Sorana Cirstea<\/a> defeats Anastasia Zakharova<\/a> in straight sets 6-1, 7-5<\/a> to advance in Cleveland. She continues her dominant run after previously upsetting top-seeded Liudmila Samsonova<\/a>.<\/p>\n 22:21 CET – Botic van de Zandschulp<\/a> has moved into the Winston-Salem semi-finals, beating Yunchaokete Bu<\/a> 6-3, 5-7, 6-3<\/a> in a real battle, one that lasted for just over two and a half hours.<\/p>\n The Dutchman will next face Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard<\/a> for a place in the final.<\/p>\n 21:51 CET – In some really unfortunate news, Sebastian Korda<\/a> has pulled out of tonight’s semi with illness, meaning Marton Fucsovics<\/a> advances to the final.<\/p>\n 20:00 CET – Good evening and welcome to our coverage of today’s tennis!<\/p>\n Play gets underway in a couple of hours in Winston-Salem, with home favourite Sebastian Korda<\/a> taking on Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics<\/a> in the first semi-final at 22:00 CET.<\/p>\n Ninth seed Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard<\/a> awaits either Botic van de Zandschulp<\/a> or Yunchaokete Bu<\/a> in the other last-four tie, while in Cleveland, second seed Xinyu Wang<\/a> will be targeting a spot in tomorrow’s final.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, there are a couple of intriguing semi-finals in Monterrey, as Diana Shnaider<\/a> takes on Alycia Parks<\/a> at 01:00 CET and Ekaterina Alexandrova<\/a> comes up against Marie Bouzkova<\/a>.<\/p>\n Follow all the action\u00a0in Monterrey<\/a>, Cleveland<\/a> and Winston-Salem<\/a> via the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We’ve reached the latter stages of tune-up tournaments in Monterrey, Cleveland and Winston-Salem, as several players on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-89676","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\/89676","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=89676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}