{"id":35456,"date":"2025-10-01T21:08:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/sonay-kartal-upsets-mirra-andreeva-to-record-biggest-scalp-of-her-career\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:08:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:08:23","slug":"sonay-kartal-upsets-mirra-andreeva-to-record-biggest-scalp-of-her-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/sonay-kartal-upsets-mirra-andreeva-to-record-biggest-scalp-of-her-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonay Kartal upsets Mirra Andreeva to record biggest scalp of her career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Britain&#8217;s Sonay Kartal claimed the biggest scalp of her career as she overcame world number five Mirra Andreeva to reach the China Open quarter-finals. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The British number four beat the Russian 7-5 2-6 7-5 in a thrilling contest which lasted two hours and 25 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victory, Kartal&#8217;s first against a player ranked in the top 10, means she has reached the last eight of a WTA 1000 event for the first time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She&#8217;s [Andreeva] a top-10 player for a very good reason,&#8221; said Kartal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She made me play my best tennis today, so credit to her, but I&#8217;m super happy with the level I managed out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number two Iga Swiatek, meanwhile, suffered a shock defeat by American 16th seed Emma Navarro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Navarro had not won more than three games in two previous matches against the Polish 24-year-old, but triumphed 6-4 4-6 6-0 in Beijing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cj4ypej70dwo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Sonay Kartal claimed the biggest scalp of her career as she overcame world number five Mirra Andreeva to reach the China Open quarter-finals. The British number four beat the Russian 7-5 2-6 7-5 in a thrilling contest which lasted two hours and 25 minutes. The victory, Kartal&#8217;s first against a player ranked in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35458,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35456\/revisions\/35458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}