{"id":650562,"date":"2026-05-06T01:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650562\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T01:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:54:09","slug":"opportunistic-andreescu-defeats-american-sofia-kenin-in-straight-sets-at-italian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650562\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunistic Andreescu defeats American Sofia Kenin in straight sets at Italian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Bianca Andreescu advanced to the second round of the Italian Open tennis tournament with a 6-4, 7-5 win over Sofia Kenin of the United States on Tuesday in Rome.  <\/p>\n<p>The opportunistic Andreescu converted five of six break-point chances and had five aces in the match that took one hour 46 minutes to complete.  <\/p>\n<p>Kenin also had six chances to break her opponent&#8217;s serve, but she converted just three as she fell to 2-5 all-time against Andreescu.  <\/p>\n<p>The American won their previous meeting last month in the second round of the Charleston Open.  <\/p>\n<p>Andreescu, 25, will next face 12th seed Belinda Bencic of Switzerland at the WTA 1000 clay-court event, a match scheduled for Wednesday at 4 a.m. ET. The players have split their previous two meetings.  <\/p>\n<p>The former world No. 4 from Mississauga, Ont., entered Rome ranked 137th on the WTA Tour after battling through injuries over the past few years. She improved her record to 21-8 this season, with most of her wins coming on the lower-tier WTA 125 and World Tennis Tour circuits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-650562","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\/650562","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=650562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}