Emma Navarro crushed fellow American Ann Li 6-1, 6-3 on Friday to advance to the Internationaux de Strasbourg final against top-seeded Victoria Mboko in France.<\/p>\n
Navarro saved seven of eight break points and converted five of eight break chances, finishing the WTA 500 clay-court semifinal in 77 minutes. She will be seeking her third career title and first since the Merida Open in Mexico in March 2025.<\/p>\n
Mboko needed two hours and 52 minutes to complete a 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-2 victory over Romania’s Jaqueline Cristian, overcoming 4-1 and 5-2 deficits in the opening set. The 19-year-old Canadian is also looking for her third title and first since the Hong Kong Open last November.<\/p>\n
Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem<\/p>\n
No. 6 seed Petra Marcinko of Croatia will meet unseeded Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina in Saturday’s championship match in Rabat, Morocco.<\/p>\n
Marcinko defeated Switzerland’s Jil Teichmann 7-6 (2), 6-3 in the semifinal of the WTA 250 clay-court tournament. She won 83.3% of the points on her first serve (30 of 36), struck four aces and converted five of 10 break points in the one-hour, 45-minute match.<\/p>\n
Kalinina will be seeking her maiden WTA Tour title after posting a 6-0, 6-3 win in 60 minutes against seventh-seeded Panna Udvardy of Hungary. Kalinina never faced a break point and converted five of eight break chances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Navarro crushed fellow American Ann Li 6-1, 6-3 on Friday to advance to the Internationaux de Strasbourg…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-687202","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\/687202","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=687202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}