{"id":939630,"date":"2026-10-20T04:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T04:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939630\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T04:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T04:36:22","slug":"2026-wrexham-open-rising-stars-head-to-the-uks-largest-indoor-tennis-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939630\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Wrexham Open: Rising stars head to the UK&#8217;s largest indoor tennis tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UK&#8217;s largest indoor tennis event returns this week some of the biggest rising stars head to the Wrexham Open in search of glory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among them is Armenia&#8217;s Alina Charaeva, who made headlines by beating world number one Elena Rybakina in the China Open earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old also beat 2024 Wrexham Open winner Sonay Kartal at the China Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The home crowd in Wrexham were treated to a Welsh winner in both the singles and doubles event in 2025, as Wales&#8217; Mimi Xu claimed both titles &#8211; alongside Ella McDonald.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Xu will not be defending her titles, opting to compete at the W75 Saguenay tournament in Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year Alicia Dudeney, Hannah Klugman and Junior Nationals champion Daniella Britton are among the British players seeking success in Wrexham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greet Minnen and former top 50 players, Lucia Bronzetti, Linda Fruhvirtova, Rebecca Sramkova and Claral Burel are just some of the international players competing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The W100 ITF World Tennis Tour event takes place between 18-25 October, and is set to be the UK&#8217;s biggest women&#8217;s tournament outside of the grass-court season this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK&#8217;s largest indoor tennis event returns this week some of the biggest rising stars head to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-939630","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\/939630","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=939630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}