{"id":813070,"date":"2026-07-19T23:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T23:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/813070\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T23:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T23:31:08","slug":"iasi-final-between-badosa-sherif-postponed-to-monday-due-to-heavy-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/813070\/","title":{"rendered":"Iasi final between Badosa, Sherif postponed to Monday due to heavy rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The singles final of the UniCredi Iasi Open between Paula Badosa and Mayar Sherif will take place on Monday after heavy rain doused the third-largest city in eastern Romania all throughout Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The final pits two players who have rediscovered their top form on clay courts against each other. Former World No. 2 Badosa is on a nine-match winning streak, having won the WTA 125 Nordea Open last week, while Sherif beat two seeds &#8212; No. 9 Yulia Putintseva in the quarterfinals and No. 3 seed Oleksandra Olinyikova in the semis &#8212; to reach her fourth career singles final at tour level.<\/p>\n<p>Both Badosa and Sherif are contesting their first WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz singles final at the WTA 250 level or higher since 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In between the rain on Sunday, Anastasia Detiuc and Irina Khromacheva defeated Alina Charaeva and Zhibek Kulambayeva to win the doubles title 4\u20136, 6\u20132, [10\u20135].\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No. 3 seeds Detiuc and Khromacheva first linked up in May, and reached the semifinals in both Rabat and &#8216;s-Hertogenbosch before giving eventual Wimbledon champions Guo Hanyu and Kristina Mladenovic all they could handle in the third round at the All England Club &#8212; leading by a set and a break before losing.<\/p>\n<p>Each woman now owns two doubles titles this season, with different partners.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The singles final of the UniCredi Iasi Open between Paula Badosa and Mayar Sherif will take place on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593,5452],"class_list":["post-813070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813070","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=813070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}