{"id":753312,"date":"2026-06-22T09:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/753312\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T09:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:37:12","slug":"linda-noskova-downs-jessica-pegula-in-berlin-open-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/753312\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Noskova downs Jessica Pegula in Berlin Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN \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>Scheduled to start around noon, the grass-court match began nearly six hours later after heavy rains caused flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Pegula\u00a0saved five match points when she won the Berlin tournament in 2024\u00a0but the 32-year-old American could not repeat the feat against her Czech opponent Sunday and missed out on a 12th\u00a0career\u00a0singles title.<\/p>\n<p>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>Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka, a four-time major winner, lost to Pegula in Saturday&#8217;s semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN \u2014 Eighth-seeded Linda Noskova beat third-seeded Jessica Pegula 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 to win the rain-delayed Berlin Open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-753312","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\/753312","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=753312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}