{"id":841631,"date":"2026-08-02T03:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841631\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T03:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:28:19","slug":"16-year-old-liutova-reaches-memphis-final-on-her-wta-debut-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841631\/","title":{"rendered":"16-Year-Old Liutova Reaches Memphis Final on her WTA Debut \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July<\/p>\n<p class=\"deck\">The 16-year-old moved into the Memphis final on her WTA debut.<\/p>\n<p>CO<\/p>\n<p>By Chris Oddo<br \/>08\/01\/2026<\/p>\n<p><img data-lazyloaded=\"1\" width=\"487\" height=\"342\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/liutova-wta-memphis-sf-.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Kristina Liutova has made a stunning run to her maiden WTA Final at the Memphis Open.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old WTA debutante, ranked No.229, defeated Elvina Kalieva 7-5 6-1 on Saturday to set a final with Darja Vidmanova of Czechia.<\/p>\n<p>Liutova, who came through a third-set tiebreak in qualifying, won eight of the final nine games from 5-5 in the opener.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Czech, ranked 114, is also into her first WTA Final.<\/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>Vidmanova was an NCAA singles and doubles champion during her time at the University of Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow\u2026<\/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<p>\u2460 Stay in the loopGet Tennis Now in your inbox<\/p>\n<p>Daily match reports, interviews and Tennis Now TV \u2014 free, every morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July The 16-year-old moved into the Memphis final on her WTA debut. CO By Chris Oddo08\/01\/2026 Kristina Liutova&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-841631","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\/841631","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=841631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}