{"id":810973,"date":"2026-07-18T22:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/810973\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T22:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:38:10","slug":"surging-badosa-reaches-lasi-final-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/810973\/","title":{"rendered":"Surging Badosa Reaches Lasi Final \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paula Badosa reached her first final in nearly two years in Lasi, Romania.<\/p>\n<p>Paula Badosa had to wait five years to get some revenge on Tamara Zidansek, but she finally got it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard, who lost to Zidansek in the Roland Garros quarterfinals in their only previous meeting (8-6 in the third), rallied past the Slovenian for a 3-6, 7-5, 7-6(1) victory to reach the final in Lasi. She will face Mayar Sherif for the title.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><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-\/><\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, I just keep fighting and believing in my game and myself,\u201d Badosa said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Badosa has won nine straight matches across all levels and reaches her first WTA level since the Citi Open in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Badosa, who won the 125k title in Bastad last week, won despite the fact that Zidansek served for the match at 5-4 in the second set, and again at 6-5 in the decider.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"adslot inline-ad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisexpress.com\/womens-racquets?utm_source=tennisnow&amp;utm_medium=article_ad&amp;utm_campaign=inarticle_racquets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tennis Express<\/p>\n<p>Grass-Court RacquetsThe frames the pros swing<\/p>\n<p>Shop racquets \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Badosa broke both times and dominated the third-set tiebreak to reach the title round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sherif defeated Oleksandra Oliynykova 6-3, 6-1 in Saturday\u2019s first semifinal.\u00a0She will bid for her second WTA title, while Badosa will bid for her fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Badosa converted eight of 24 break points in the match and surrendered eight breaks as well in a wild battle that lasted two hours and 41 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chris Oddo. Chris Oddo is a freelance sportswriter, podcaster, blogger and social media marker who is a lead contributor to Tennisnow.com. He also writes for USOpen.org, Rolandgarros.com, BNPParibasOpen.com, TennisTV.com, WTAtennis.com and the official US Open program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paula Badosa reached her first final in nearly two years in Lasi, Romania. Paula Badosa had to wait&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-810973","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\/810973","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=810973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810973\/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=810973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}