{"id":397254,"date":"2026-01-09T13:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397254\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:08:07","slug":"tennis-wta-brisbane-international-presented-by-anz-2026-pegula-defeats-samsonova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397254\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis, WTA \u2013 Brisbane International presented by ANZ 2026: Pegula defeats Samsonova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Jessica Pegula, the No 4 seed, defeated Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 10 seed, 6-3, 7-6 (3) to advance to the semi-finals of the Brisbane International presented by ANZ on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Pegula, ranked No 6, will face the winner of the match between Russian Mirra Andreeva, the No 6 seed, and Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, the No 16 seed, next.<\/p>\n<p>The American won against Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska (5-7, 6-2, 6-3) and edged out Russian Anna Kalinskaya (6-2, 2-6, 6-4) in the previous rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the tournament, Samsonova, ranked No 17, won against Belarusian qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich (6-4, 6-4) and Australian wildcard Emerson Jones (6-4, 6-1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Jessica Pegula, the No 4 seed, defeated Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 10 seed, 6-3, 7-6 (3)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-397254","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\/397254","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=397254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}