{"id":911505,"date":"2026-09-27T10:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T10:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911505\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T10:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T10:54:12","slug":"birrell-wins-all-aussie-final-for-maiden-tour-level-title-in-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911505\/","title":{"rendered":"Birrell Wins All-Aussie Final for Maiden Tour-Level Title in Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Match Report<\/p>\n<p class=\"tn-article-dek\">In her third career final, 28-year-old Kimberly Birrell won her maiden title.<\/p>\n<p>Richard PagliaroSeptember 27, 20261 minute read<\/p>\n<p>        Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>        1\u00d7<br \/>\n        \u2715<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"tn-article-hero\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Kim_Birrell_Hameltion-Wikimedia.jpg\" alt=\"Birrell Wins All-Aussie Final for Maiden Tour-Level Title in Seoul\"\/>      <\/p>\n<p>By Richard Pagliaro | Sunday, September 27, 2026<br \/>Photo credit: Hameltion\/Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<p>Friends were foes in today\u2019s Seoul final.<\/p>\n<p>In the first all-Aussie WTA final since Strasbourg in 2017, Kimberly Birrell made a big breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Birrell beat Maya Joint, 6-4, 6-2, to capture her maiden Tour-level title in Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>It was just the third all-Australian final of the 21st century on the WTA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Joint, who beat Serena Williams at Wimbledon last summer, jumped out to an early 2-0 lead today.<\/p>\n<p>Birrell found her range and rhythm reeling off six of the next eight games for a one-set lead.<\/p>\n<p> World No. 60 Birrell broke three times in a row bursting out to a 4-1 second-set lead. Birrell served out her maiden WTA championship at 30 to close.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis Express \u2022 Pro Player Gear \u2022 Shop what the pros play with<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/collections\/pro-player-gear?utm_source=tennisnow&amp;utm_medium=article-banner&amp;utm_campaign=pro-player-gear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener sponsored nofollow\" data-tnc-partner=\"tennis-express\" data-tnc-placement=\"article-banner\"><img class=\"tnc-ad-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790506452_830_tennis-express-pro-player-gear.jpg\" alt=\"Tennis Express \u2022 Pro Player Gear \u2022 Shop what the pros play with\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report In her third career final, 28-year-old Kimberly Birrell won her maiden title. Richard PagliaroSeptember 27, 20261&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-911505","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\/911505","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=911505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}