American Emma Navarro claimed her first title in more than a year as she beat top seed Victoria Mboko to win the Strasbourg Open.<\/p>\n
Navarro, the 25-year-old former world number eight, put in a superb performance to beat her 19-year-old Canadian opponent 6-0 5-7 6-2 and claim a third WTA title and first on clay.<\/p>\n
Having struggled with illness and been forced to withdraw from a number of tournaments, the victory is a timely boost for Navarro before the French Open, which begins on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“It’s kind of been a little bit of a rocky year and a half or so, but I think we put in a lot of really good work,” said Navarro, who began the week ranked 39th.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, there was another American winner at the men’s Geneva Open as 20-year-old Learner Tien beat Argentina’s Mariano Navone 3-6 6-3 7-5 to secure the second ATP title of his career.<\/p>\n
Tommy Paul was unable to make it a hat-trick of wins for the United States as Peruvian qualifier Ignacio Buse stunned the sixth seed to triumph 7-6 (8-6) 4-6 6-3 in the Hamburg Open final.<\/p>\n
After coming through a match that lasted more than three hours, Buse becomes the first Peruvian ATP Tour title winner since Luis Horna won at Vina del Mar in 2007.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Croatia’s Petra Marcinko won the first title of her career on the WTA tour at the Morocco Open.<\/p>\n
The world number 76 was leading 6-2 3-0 just 46 minutes into the final when Ukrainian opponent Anhelina Kalinina retired from the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Emma Navarro claimed her first title in more than a year as she beat top seed Victoria…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-600636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}