{"id":749830,"date":"2026-06-20T16:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/749830\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T16:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T16:42:12","slug":"resurgent-navarro-and-bouzkova-set-nottingham-final-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/749830\/","title":{"rendered":"Resurgent Navarro and Bouzkova Set Nottingham Final \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Navarro and Marie Bouzkova will battle for the Nottingham final on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bouzkova took out former World No.1 Karolina Pliskova, 6-4, 6-1, while Navarro reached her second final in as many months with a 7-6(5), 6-2 victory over Switzerland\u2019s Viktorija Golubic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\"  data-\/>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>2022 Wimbledon quarterfinalist Bouzkova has yet to drop a set this week, or even be pushed to a tiebreak, as she reached her first career grass court final.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Navarro, a 2024 Wimbledon quarterfinalist who won a clay title at Strasbourg just before Roland Garros, is into her first career final on grass as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both Navarro and Bouzkova will bid for a fourth career title on Sunday. The pair have never met before on tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a really tough battle today,\u201d Navarro said of her victory over Golubic. \u201cA lot of really tough points, and it wasn\u2019t easy, being up 5-2 in the first, and then losing three games in a row.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Are we seeing the best of Emma Navarro again, after a rough period saw the American drop out of the top 30 for a spell this spring?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to put a ceiling on myself, I guess, but I\u2019m enjoying myself on court and playing some good tennis, too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Navarro and Marie Bouzkova will battle for the Nottingham final on Sunday.\u00a0 Bouzkova took out former World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-749830","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\/749830","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=749830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}