Bianca Andreescu is making some progress in her bid to get back to being a regular at big WTA Tour events.<\/p>\n
The Canadian advanced to the final of the Austin 125 tournament with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 win over Spain’s Paula Badosa on Friday in Texas.<\/p>\n
Andreescu, whose ranking has slipped to No. 165 after several injury-plagued seasons, has played mostly smaller events this year in an effort to get back into more main draws.<\/p>\n
The 125 tournaments are the lowest level of tour events.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old got a wild card into the BNP Paribas Masters in Indian Wells, Calif. last week and lost in the first round.<\/p>\n
Andreescu reached No. 4 in the rankings in 2019 when she won the U.S. Open, along with two other tournaments.<\/p>\n
The Mississauga, Ont. product is guaranteed to reach the top 150 in next week’s rankings.<\/p>\n
Badosa, meanwhile, is a former world No. 2. She has fallen to No. 106.<\/p>\n
Andreescu will face world No. 124 Lanlala Tararudee of Thailand in the final at Austin on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bianca Andreescu is making some progress in her bid to get back to being a regular at big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-536026","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\/536026","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=536026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}