{"id":511198,"date":"2026-03-03T08:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/511198\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:08:10","slug":"wta-qualifying-wrap-top-seeded-boulter-townsend-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/511198\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Qualifying Wrap: Top-Seeded Boulter, Townsend Advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Townsend Powers Through<\/p>\n<p>World No.87 Townsend reached her first career final over the weekend in Austin, Texas. A few days later, and over 1,000 miles slightly northwest, Townsend continues to play like a woman on a mission. The 29-year-old angled past Joanna Garland of Chinese Taipei in front of a boisterous crowd in Stadium 4, 6-4, 6-4.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Townsend will face American wild card Akasha Urhobo for a spot in the main draw on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other winners on Day 2 of WTA qualifying include Priscilla Hon, who defeated No. 6-seeded Renata Zarazua 7-5, 7-6(3) and Storm Hunter, who got past Austrian Sinja Kraus, 7-6(4), 6-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Townsend Powers Through World No.87 Townsend reached her first career final over the weekend in Austin, Texas. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-511198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511198","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=511198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}