{"id":969601,"date":"2026-11-13T21:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T21:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/969601\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T21:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T21:22:11","slug":"canadas-bianca-nandreescu-advances-to-final-at-wta-125-event-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/969601\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Bianca nAndreescu advances to final at WTA 125 event in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">SOP\u00d3 \u2014 Canada\u2019s Bianca Andreescu is heading to another final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 26-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., rolled past Slovenia\u2019s Polona Hercog 6-1, 6-4 in semifinal action at the DIRECTV Open in Sopo, Colombia, on Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Andreescu, seeded third in the WTA 125 tournament, will face Elizabeth Mandlik of the United States in Saturday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Andreescu won the Queretaro Open in Mexico earlier this month and finished runner-up at the Cali Open in Colombia last weekend, helping the 2019 U.S. Open champion climb to No. 100 in the WTA rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Friday, Andreescu hit 18 winners en route to winning the match in 68 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She saved three of Hercog\u2019s five break-point chances while converting five of her nine break opportunities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 13, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOP\u00d3 \u2014 Canada\u2019s Bianca Andreescu is heading to another final. The 26-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., rolled past Slovenia\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":969602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-969601","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\/969601","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=969601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/969602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}