{"id":650809,"date":"2026-06-21T16:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/650809\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T16:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T16:17:09","slug":"nottingham-open-marie-bouzkova-beats-emma-navarro-to-win-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/650809\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Open: Marie Bouzkova beats Emma Navarro to win title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marie Bouzkova overcame an ankle injury to beat Emma Navarro and win the Nottingham Open for her first grass-court singles title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Czech fourth seed Bouzkova twice received treatment on the injury but rallied to see off the American 7-6 (7-5) 4-6 6-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is a second title of the year for the 27-year-old after she won the clay-court event in Bogota in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bouzkova twice led Navarro by a break in the first set but was reeled in by the former world number eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, serving at 6-5 0-30 down, Bouzkova took a medical timeout after landing awkwardly on her right ankle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She played on and recovered to deuce on her serve but there was another lengthy delay after a medical issue in the crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After losing a close tie-breaker, Navarro reset to win the second set, but an early break in the decider was enough for Bouzkova to seal her fourth career singles title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bouzkova wished her dad a happy Father&#8217;s Day in her on-court speech after he flew in to watch her victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marie Bouzkova overcame an ankle injury to beat Emma Navarro and win the Nottingham Open for her first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-650809","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\/650809","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=650809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}