{"id":500684,"date":"2026-03-03T06:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/500684\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T06:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:25:07","slug":"wta-qualifying-wrap-top-seeded-boulter-townsend-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/500684\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Qualifying Wrap: Top-Seeded Boulter, Townsend Advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Townsend Powers Through<\/p>\n<p>World No.87 Townsend reached her first career final over the weekend in Austin, Texas. A few days later, and over 1,000 miles slightly northwest, Townsend continues to play like a woman on a mission. The 29-year-old angled past Joanna Garland of Chinese Taipei in front of a boisterous crowd in Stadium 4, 6-4, 6-4.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Townsend will face American wild card Akasha Urhobo for a spot in the main draw on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other winners on Day 2 of WTA qualifying include Priscilla Hon, who defeated No. 6-seeded Renata Zarazua 7-5, 7-6(3) and Storm Hunter, who got past Austrian Sinja Kraus, 7-6(4), 6-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Townsend Powers Through World No.87 Townsend reached her first career final over the weekend in Austin, Texas. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-500684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500684","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=500684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}