Jovic, the No. 2 seed, had booked her place the previous evening by beating Spain\u2019s Cristina Bucsa, the No. 6 seed, 6-4, 6-1, a result that carries the 18-year-old to a new career high of No. 13 next week, up from No. 14. The win was also her 36th at WTA level in 2026, the joint-most of any player this season alongside Iga Swiatek, and the clearest measure yet of her breakthrough year.<\/p>\n
On her way to the final, Jovic dropped a single set to nobody: she beat Poland\u2019s Magdalena Frech, the No. 7 seed, 6-2, 6-1, and Zeynep Sonmez 7-6 (5), 6-4. Bucsa, ranked No. 40, had been the tournament\u2019s other disruptor, taking out Czech No. 3 seed Sara Bejlek 6-0, 6-4, Hungary\u2019s Panna Udvardy 6-4, 6-4 and Canadian wildcard Bianca Andreescu 6-4, 6-3.<\/p>\n
Stearns, ranked No. 55, has spent the week beating better-ranked opposition and did it again in the semifinal, edging a first-set tiebreak against Samsonova before running away with the second. The American had earlier beaten wildcard Sloane Stephens 7-6 (6), 6-4, French No. 4 seed Diane Parry 6-2, 7-5 and Colombia\u2019s Emiliana Arango 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n
Samsonova, ranked No. 47, leaves Mexico with the best win of her week behind her: the Russian had knocked out Ukraine\u2019s Marta Kostyuk, the top seed, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5, after surviving American Kayla Day 7-6 (4), 2-6, 7-6 (5) and beating Frenchwoman Elsa Jacquemot 7-6 (6), 6-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jovic, the No. 2 seed, had booked her place the previous evening by beating Spain\u2019s Cristina Bucsa, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-901443","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\/901443","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=901443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}