{"id":802463,"date":"2026-08-04T13:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/802463\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T13:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:52:10","slug":"turkiyes-zeynep-sonmez-advances-to-2nd-round-of-canadian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/802463\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s Zeynep Sonmez advances to 2nd round of Canadian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dilara Hamit<\/p>\n<p>04 August 2026\u2022Update: 04 August 2026<\/p>\n<p>Turkish tennis player Zeynep Sonmez advanced to the second round of the WTA 1000 Canadian Open.<\/p>\n<p>World No. 52 Sonmez defeated Canada\u2019s Rebecca Marino 7-5, 6-4 in straight sets at the tournament in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>The opening set remained closely contested before Sonmez secured the decisive advantage to take it 7-5. She maintained her momentum in the second set, overcoming Marino and the support of the home crowd to complete the victory without dropping a set.<\/p>\n<p>The result continued Sonmez\u2019s progress on the women\u2019s tour and secured her a meeting with Greece\u2019s Maria Sakkari in the next round.<\/p>\n<p>Sakkari, currently ranked 33rd in the world, will present another significant test for the Turkish player as she seeks a place in the tournament\u2019s third round.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Open is among the most prestigious events on the WTA calendar below the four Grand Slam tournaments and brings together many of the world\u2019s leading players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dilara Hamit 04 August 2026\u2022Update: 04 August 2026 Turkish tennis player Zeynep Sonmez advanced to the second round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[261065,99,428],"class_list":["post-802463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sitekeywords","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802463","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=802463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}