{"id":139584,"date":"2025-09-12T22:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/139584\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T22:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:10:08","slug":"canadas-marina-stakusic-into-quarterfinals-at-guadalajara-with-win-over-3rd-seed-jelena-ostapenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/139584\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Marina Stakusic into quarterfinals at Guadalajara with win over 3rd seed Jelena Ostapenko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">GUADALAJARA \u2014 Canadian tennis player Marina Stakusic is through to the quarterfinals of the Guadalajara Open Akron after a 6-4 6-7 (6), 6-2 upset of third seed Jelena Ostapenko on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Stakusic won when Ostapenko\u2019s return on match point went long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian won 87 per cent of service points and scored the only break of a sold first set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She led the second-set tiebreaker 5-3 before Ostapenko rallied to take the extra session 8-6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But Stakusic regained her momentum in the third set, scoring two breaks to clinch the victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Stakusic will face Emiliana Arango of Colombia in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 20-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., advanced to her first quarterfinal at a WTA Tour-level event since last year\u2019s Guadalajara Open. She also defeated Ostapenko, who was seeded No. 1, in the Round of 16 at that tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 12, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GUADALAJARA \u2014 Canadian tennis player Marina Stakusic is through to the quarterfinals of the Guadalajara Open Akron after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-139584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}