{"id":856535,"date":"2026-09-22T11:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/856535\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:26:28","slug":"quevedo-beats-podoroska-in-sao-paulo-to-win-first-wta-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/856535\/","title":{"rendered":"Quevedo beats Podoroska in Sao Paulo to win first WTA title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">Spaniard Kaitlin Quevedo crowned her debut season on the WTA tour by winning her first title on Monday when she came from a set down to beat Argentine Nadia Podoroska 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 in the rescheduled Sao Paulo final.<\/p>\n<p>In a match between two women playing their first tour final, the 20-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/quevedo-kaitlin\/Ovyv04To\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quevedo<\/a>, ranked 90th in the world, started slowly.<\/p>\n<p>After the final was pushed back to Monday due to heavy rain earlier in the hard-court tournament, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/podoroska-nadia\/OKBlwX8r\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Podoroska<\/a>, a 29-year-old ranked 200th in the world, broke her American-born opponent twice to lead 3-0 in the first set.<\/p>\n<p>Quevedo, who made her tour debut in Auckland in January, broke back in the fourth game but Podoroska stayed in control to take the set.<\/p>\n<p>The players exchanged breaks at the start of the second set before Quevedo broke in the 10th game.<\/p>\n<p>That swung momentum her way as she won the first five games of the third set; Podoroska briefly fought back before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/match\/tennis\/podoroska-n-OKBlwX8r\/quevedo-k-Ovyv04To\/?mid=pAxPA6XH\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quevedo clinched victory on her second championship point.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img crossorigin=\"anonymous\" class=\"wcl-image_vG4MA\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2eef31c1-725a-4bf2-a775-e42c379dbcb8.jpg\" alt=\"Key match stats\" title=\"Key match stats\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>Key match statsFlashscore<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/tennis\/wta-singles\/sao-paulo\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Catch up on the tournament in Sao Paulo here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spaniard Kaitlin Quevedo crowned her debut season on the WTA tour by winning her first title on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-856535","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\/856535","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=856535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}