{"id":158135,"date":"2025-09-15T09:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/158135\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T09:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:58:07","slug":"american-teenager-iva-jovic-wins-maiden-wta-title-at-guadalajara-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/158135\/","title":{"rendered":"American teenager Iva Jovic wins maiden WTA title at Guadalajara Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Iva Jovic captured her first WTA Tour-level title on Sunday with a 6-4 6-1 win over Colombia&#8217;s Emiliana Arango in the final of the Guadalajara Open.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old Californian, who entered the WTA 500 hardcourt tournament ranked 73rd, became the youngest player to win the title, and the youngest American to clinch a tour-level crown since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/gauff-coco\/f5BXmEH6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Coco Gauff<\/a> triumphed in Parma in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/jovic-iva\/bmWvBlnL\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jovic<\/a> also breaks into the Top 50 when the rankings are released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/arango-emiliana\/rwWwX7oC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arango<\/a> battled valiantly despite dealing with illness, the 24-year-old saving three set points at 5-3 in the opener and breaking Jovic&#8217;s serve twice to stay in contention.<\/p>\n<p>However, she was unable to capitalise while leading 30-15 in the next game and Jovic closed out the set. The American then dominated the second set, wrapping up the match in just over 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Jovic had warm words for Arango, who also finished runner-up in Merida in February and is still seeking her first WTA title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You showed so much fight and gave the people a show,&#8221; Jovic said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not easy to start out on tour when you&#8217;re young &#8230; but people like Emiliana make it easier and always have a smile on their face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/match\/tennis\/arango-e-rwWwX7oC\/jovic-i-bmWvBlnL\/summary\/?mid=ryttLrpK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Check out the match summary here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Iva Jovic captured her first WTA Tour-level title on Sunday with a 6-4 6-1 win over Colombia&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-158135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}