{"id":270373,"date":"2025-11-08T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/270373\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T17:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:07:08","slug":"kudermetova-and-mertens-reunion-culminates-in-second-wta-finals-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/270373\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudermetova and Mertens\u2019 reunion culminates in second WTA Finals title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After winning the WTA Finals in Fort Worth in 2022, Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens didn\u2019t play a match together as partners in 2023 or 2024.<\/p>\n<p>They reunited in late April and picked up where they left off, reaching the finals at back-to-back WTA 1000 events in Madrid and Rome in their first two tournaments back together. That kickstarted a run to the WTA Finals in Riyadh, where they secured the No. 4 seed despite a late start compared to the other seven teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After defeating three-time champion Timea Babos and her partner Luisa Stefani 7-6 (4), 6-1 in 1 hour and 36 minutes on Saturday at King Saud University Indoor Arena, their reunion culminated in a second Martina Navratilova Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>They are the 22nd and 23rd players to hoist the trophy multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After winning the WTA Finals in Fort Worth in 2022, Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens didn\u2019t play a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593,5452],"class_list":{"0":"post-270373","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","12":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270373","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=270373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}