{"id":89033,"date":"2025-08-22T15:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89033\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T15:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:46:06","slug":"tennis-wta-abierto-gnp-seguros-2025-shnaider-defeats-mertens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89033\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis, WTA \u2013 Abierto GNP Seguros 2025: Shnaider defeats Mertens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Diana Shnaider, the No 3 seed, edged out Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 5 seed, 3-6, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (4) to advance to the semi-finals of the Abierto GNP Seguros on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Shnaider saved one match point on serve trailing 5-4 in the second set, and another four on return down 5-2 in the third set.<\/p>\n<p>The Ruissian player will play her first semi-final of the year on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Shnaider, ranked No 22, will play the winner of the match between American Alycia Parks and Slovak Rebecca Sramkova next.<\/p>\n<p>In the previous round, the 21-year-old Russian won against Kamilla Rakhimova (7-6 (3), 6-1).<\/p>\n<p>Mertens, ranked No 22, defeated Croat Donna Vekic (6-3, 6-3) and Russian Anna Blinkova (6-4, 6-3) in the previous rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian Diana Shnaider, the No 3 seed, edged out Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 5 seed, 3-6, 7-6&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-89033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89033","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=89033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}