It’s semi-final day for the WTA events in Hong Kong, Jiujiang, and Chennai, as well as the ATP Paris Masters, but the main event will be the first matches of the WTA Finals in Riyadh! This is your one-stop shop for all the results and news.<\/p>\n
11:30 CET –\u00a017-year-old Lilli Tagger<\/a> of Austria has stunned second seed Viktorija Golubic<\/a> 6-1, 4-6, 7-5<\/a> to reach the Jiujiang final in China.<\/p>\n The teenager will take on Russia’s Anna Blinkova<\/a> tomorrow in what will be her first Tour final, in what is, would you believe it, her first ever WTA main-draw appearance! Exciting times for Tagger.<\/p>\n 10:24 CET – Rising Canadian star\u00a0Victoria Mboko<\/a> has come back to beat her compatriot, and second seed, Leylah Fernandez<\/a> 2-6, 6-3, 6-2<\/a> to qualify for the final of the Hong Kong Open.<\/p>\n Mboko will take on Spain’s Cristina Bucsa<\/a> in the decider tomorrow. The 19-year-old will be seeking her second WTA Tour title.<\/p>\n 08:57 CET – Russia’s Anna Blinkova<\/a> has beaten Czech Dominika Salkova<\/a> 6-4, 6-4<\/a> to reach the final in Jiujiang, China.<\/p>\n Blinkova will take on the winner of second seed Viktorija Golubic<\/a> and 17-year-old Lilli Tagger<\/a> in tomorrow’s final.<\/p>\n 08:05 CET – We have our first finalist of the weekend confirmed, and it’s Cristina Bucsa<\/a>. She has defeated fifth seed Maya Joint<\/a> in the first semi-final in Hong Kong, 6-3, 6-1<\/a>, in less than an hour.<\/p>\n Leylah Fernandez<\/a> and Victoria Mboko<\/a> face off next for the right to play the Spaniard in the decider tomorrow.<\/p>\n 06:30 CET –\u00a0Hello and welcome to our coverage of the ATP and WTA action for this Saturday. It’s semi-final day in this week’s tournaments, and so we have some great tennis in store!<\/p>\n The Jiujang, Hong Kong and Chennai semis are starting nice and early, with the pick of those women’s matches being an all-Canadian clash in Hong Kong between Leylah Fernandez<\/a> and Victoria Mboko<\/a>.<\/p>\n Later on, the action heats up in Paris with the last four men hitting the courts.\u00a0<\/p>\n First up in the French capital, Felix Auger-Alliassime<\/a> takes on Alexander Bublik<\/a> at 14:30 CET, before world number two Jannik Sinner<\/a> faces number three Alexander Zverev<\/a> in a heavyweight clash.<\/p>\n However, the main events today are the first matches of the WTA Finals in Riyadh!<\/p>\n We have the first two Group B clashes to enjoy later, with world number two Iga Swiatek<\/a> taking on Madison Keys<\/a> at 16:00 CET\u00a0before Amanda Anisimova<\/a> faces Elena Rybakina<\/a>.<\/p>\n Stay tuned for all those results and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s semi-final day for the WTA events in Hong Kong, Jiujiang, and Chennai, as well as the ATP…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-254467","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\/254467","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=254467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}