A decisive semifinal left one local favorite short of the title match. Tomorrow the Iasi Open final will feature Mayar Sherif against the winner of Badosa Hilbert and Zidansek.<\/p>\n
In the Romanian city of Ia\u0219i, the clay-court tournament of the Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA 250) UniCredit Ia\u0219i Open is underway with a prize pool of about $250,000.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old Ukrainian Oleksandra Oliynykova (No. 52 in the WTA rankings) lost in the semifinals to Egypt\u2019s Mayar Sherif (No. 97) with a score of 3-6, 1-6.<\/p>\n
Oliynykova played her second WTA semifinal and again failed to reach the final.<\/p>\n
In the Ia\u0219i tournament final, Sherif on July 19 will face the winner of the match between Spain\u2019s Paula Badosa Hilbert (No. 115) and Slovenia\u2019s Tamara Zidan\u0161ek (No. 148).<\/p>\n
Expectations for the upcoming Ia\u0219i Open final<\/p>\n
After a tense semifinal battle, Sherif continues her path toward the title. The final showdown promises to be decisive, as the winner will advance to the competition\u2019s final and receive ranking points and prize money.<\/p>\n
The Ia\u0219i Open final is scheduled for July 19: Sherif will face the winner of the duel between Hilbert and Zidan\u0161ek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A decisive semifinal left one local favorite short of the title match. Tomorrow the Iasi Open final will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,284568,284569,284567,284570,44,284571,82,593,284572],"class_list":["post-810794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-iasi-final","tag-iasi-open","tag-iasi-open-mayar-sherif-oliinykova-wta-250-iasi-final","tag-mayar-sherif","tag-news","tag-oliinykova","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-wta-250"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810794","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=810794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}