{"id":752238,"date":"2026-06-21T20:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/752238\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T20:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:36:08","slug":"linda-noskova-beats-jessica-pegula-on-grass-to-win-the-berlin-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/752238\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Noskova beats Jessica Pegula on grass to win the Berlin Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BERLIN (AP) \u2014 Eighth-seeded Linda Noskova beat third-seeded Jessica Pegula 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 to win the rain-delayed Berlin Open final on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Scheduled to start around noon, the grass-court match began nearly six hours later after heavy rains caused flooding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pegula saved five match points when she won the Berlin tournament in 2024 but the 32-year-old American could not repeat the feat against her Czech opponent Sunday and missed out on a 12th career singles title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Instead, the 21-year-old Noskova clinched the second title of her career. The WTA 500 grass-court event served as a tune-up for Wimbledon, which starts on June 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka, a four-time major winner, lost to Pegula in Saturday\u2019s semifinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Also Sunday, fourth-seeded Czech player Marie Bouzkova beat No. 3-seeded Emma Navarro 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-2 to win the Nottingham Open final for her first singles title on grass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (AP) \u2014 Eighth-seeded Linda Noskova beat third-seeded Jessica Pegula 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 to win the rain-delayed Berlin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-752238","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\/752238","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=752238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}