Jun 21, 2026, 02:24 PM ET<\/p>\n
BERLIN — Eighth-seeded Linda Noskova<\/a> beat third-seeded Jessica Pegula<\/a> 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 to win the rain-delayed Berlin Open final on Sunday.<\/p>\n Scheduled to start around noon, the grass-court match began nearly six hours later after heavy rains caused flooding.<\/p>\n Pegula saved five match points when she won the Berlin tournament in 2024, but the 32-year-old American could not repeat the feat against her Czech opponent Sunday and missed out on a 12th career singles title.<\/p>\n Instead, the 21-year-old Noskova clinched the second title of her career. The WTA 500 grass-court event served as a tune-up for Wimbledon, which starts on June 29.<\/p>\n Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>, a four-time major winner, lost to Pegula in Saturday’s semifinals.<\/p>\n Also Sunday, fourth-seeded Czech player Marie Bouzkova<\/a> beat No. 3-seeded Emma Navarro<\/a> 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-2 to win the Nottingham Open final for her first singles title on grass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jun 21, 2026, 02:24 PM ET BERLIN — Eighth-seeded Linda Noskova beat third-seeded Jessica Pegula 6-4, 4-6, 6-3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-718628","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\/718628","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=718628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}