{"id":64345,"date":"2019-06-23T09:19:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=64345"},"modified":"2019-06-23T09:19:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:19:56","slug":"bencic-upsets-kerber-to-reach-mallorca-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/bencic-upsets-kerber-to-reach-mallorca-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Bencic upsets Kerber to reach Mallorca final"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Belinda Bencic battled back from a set down to beat three-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber to reach the Mallorca Open final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bencic, world No. 13, edged out top seed Kerber 2-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4 to set up a clash with seventh seed Sofia Kenin on Saturday. The 22-year-old Swiss will be playing in her second final of the season at the grass-court tournament, having won the third WTA title of her career at Dubai in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three-time Grand Slam champion Kerber has endured a difficult year &#8211; being thrashed by the unheralded Danielle Collins at the Australian Open, losing her only 2019 final to Canadian teenager Bianca Andreescu at Indian Wells, before suffering a first-round exit against Anastasia Potapova at Roland Garros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on Saturday, American youngster Kenin, who stunned Serena Williams at the French Open earlier this month, continued her strong form by beating Anastasija Sevastova. The 20-year-old, who won her maiden WTA title in Hobart in January, beat Latvian second seed Sevastova 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenin, ranked 30th in the world, will face Bencic for the first time on Sunday. It will be Kenin&#8217;s third final of the season, having also finished runner-up to Wang Yafan in Acapulco in March.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belinda Bencic battled back from a set down to beat three-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber to reach the Mallorca Open final. Bencic, world No. 13, edged out top seed Kerber 2-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4 to set up a clash with seventh seed Sofia Kenin on Saturday. The 22-year-old Swiss will be playing in her [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64347,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64345\/revisions\/64347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}