{"id":506135,"date":"2026-10-24T04:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T04:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506135\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T04:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T04:08:13","slug":"hossam-advances-to-quarterfinals-at-w35-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506135\/","title":{"rendered":"Hossam advances to quarterfinals at W35 Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bakersfield, Calif. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/jana-hossam\/18584\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18584\" target=\"_blank\">Jana Hossam<\/a> (#11) and Oklahoma&#8217;s Edda Mamedova\u00a0(#22) resumed their suspended match at W35 Bakersfield Friday with Hossam trailing 5-1 in the first set. Mamedova closed out the first 6-1, but Hossam bounced back and took the next two 6-2, 6-3 to advance to the quarterfinals. She was slated to take on Jenna DeFalco\u00a0late Friday, but the match had yet to begin as of 10 p.m. ET.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itftennis.com\/en\/tournament\/w35-bakersfield-ca\/usa\/2026\/w-itf-usa-2026-057\/draws-and-results\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Draw &amp; Results<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThursday, October 22<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/allegra-korpanec-davies\/18586\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18586\" target=\"_blank\">Allegra Korpanec Davies<\/a> drew a difficult opponent in her first round match of the main draw as former Georgia standout, and former #3 singles player in the nation Lea Ma upended the Florida freshman 2-6, 3-6.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHossam (#11) had her second round match vs. Mamedova (#22)\u00a0suspended due to inclement weather with the junior trailing 5-1 in the first set.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWednesday, October 21<br \/>\nHossam (#11) had an early day in her first round match of the main draw, as her opponent, Ukrainian Valeriya Strakhova, was forced to retire with Hossam trailing 3-2 in the first set.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTuesday, October 20<br \/>\nHossam (#11) advanced to the main draw with a straight-set win over Camile Allegro 6-2, 6-3.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHossam and <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/allegra-korpanec-davies\/18586\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18586\" target=\"_blank\">Allegra Korpanec Davies<\/a> also began their doubles competition in Bakersfield, but dropped a tough 6-7 (5-7), 6-3), 0-1 [7-10] decision to Tennessee&#8217;s Francesca Mattioli and Stefani Webb in the first round.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMonday, October 19 Results<br \/>\nHossam (#11) fell behind in her first round qualifying match, but battled back for a three-set victory over Southern California&#8217;s Lilly Faircloth 3-6, 6-0, 1-0 [10-7].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bakersfield, Calif. \u2014 Jana Hossam (#11) and Oklahoma&#8217;s Edda Mamedova\u00a0(#22) resumed their suspended match at W35 Bakersfield Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-506135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}