Marie Bouzkova overcame an ankle injury to beat Emma Navarro and win the Nottingham Open for her first grass-court singles title.<\/p>\n
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
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
Bouzkova twice led Navarro by a break in the first set but was reeled in by the former world number eight.<\/p>\n
However, serving at 6-5 0-30 down, Bouzkova took a medical timeout after landing awkwardly on her right ankle.<\/p>\n
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
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
Bouzkova wished her dad a happy Father’s Day in her on-court speech after he flew in to watch her victory.<\/p>\n
There was British success in the women’s doubles as Harriet Dart and Maia Lumsden beat second seeds Shuko Aoyama and Hao-Ching Chan 6-3 6-4 to clinch the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marie Bouzkova overcame an ankle injury to beat Emma Navarro and win the Nottingham Open for her first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-717680","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\/717680","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=717680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}