{"id":927618,"date":"2026-10-10T09:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T09:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927618\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T09:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T09:42:14","slug":"andreeva-reaches-beijing-final-set-to-become-world-no-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927618\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreeva reaches Beijing final, set to become world No. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after securing her berth in the season-ending WTA Finals, No. 4 seed Mirra Andreeva advanced to the final of the China Open in Beijing with a straight-sets victory over No. 26 seed Nikola Bartunkova.<\/p>\n<p>Andreeva needed 1 hour, 14 minutes to claim her 50th win of the season, tying Jessica Pegula for the most match victories on tour this year. The win will also lift Andreeva to a career-high world No. 3 in the rankings next week for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Andreeva will face No. 13 seed Elise Mertens or former world No. 4 Zheng Qinwen in Sunday&#8217;s final.<\/p>\n<p>More to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A day after securing her berth in the season-ending WTA Finals, No. 4 seed Mirra Andreeva advanced to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593,5452],"class_list":["post-927618","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\/927618","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=927618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}