{"id":17113,"date":"2021-08-11T11:09:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T05:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=135984"},"modified":"2021-08-11T11:09:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T05:39:25","slug":"wta-montreal-defending-champion-bianca-andreescu-advances-to-the-third-round-after-beating-harriet-dart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/wta-montreal-defending-champion-bianca-andreescu-advances-to-the-third-round-after-beating-harriet-dart\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Montreal: Defending Champion Bianca Andreescu advances to the third round after beating Harriet Dart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WTA tournament is going on in Montreal and there\u2019s some good news for the Canadian fans as Bianca Andreescu reached the third round of the competition after beating Harriet Dart. After recovering from her injury she has shown a proper class in her game and won 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 against the British girl to secure her place in the third round of the tournament.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f Let her hear it Canada!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bandreescu_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Bandreescu_<\/a> battles past Dart in front of a supportive crowd for a spot in round 3!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OBN21?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OBN21<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NVv8n7FPTR\">pic.twitter.com\/NVv8n7FPTR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 wta (@WTA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA\/status\/1425266306702405634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Andreescu\u2019s win percent on her 1st serve was way better than Harriet\u2019s. Bianca Andreescu won 88 points in total in this match. \u201cIt was an awesome atmosphere out there, I was super emotional and got goosebumps walking out with the crowd cheering. There may have only been 5,000, but it seemed like a lot more,\u201d Andreescu said to AFP<\/p>\n<p>However the Canadian couldn\u2019t play in the Olympics. She had to cancel her name because of the injury. she was sad as she wasn\u2019t able to represent her country in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. \u201cBouncing back was the most satisfying thing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fired up \ud83d\udd25<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bandreescu_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Bandreescu_<\/a> produces an unreal winner!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OBN21?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OBN21<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3D3MMtODcG\">pic.twitter.com\/3D3MMtODcG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 wta (@WTA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA\/status\/1425238689811025922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In this game, Bianca Andreescu played with more power and she was regarded as fun to watch by the commentators. She is looking more dangerous after recovering from her injury. She didn\u2019t win a single game before winning the first round of the Montreal tournament and reaching the second. Bianca Andreescu is a Canadian professional tennis player who was the champion of the US Open in 2019. She was also scheduled to play some games in 2020 but she couldn\u2019t as she was injured the entire year. Andreescu also became the first tennis player to be born in 2000 and win a Grand Slam singles title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bianca Andreescu has beaten Harriet Dart, the British tennis player to reach the third round of the WTA Montreal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":37860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1436,852,1526,202,1999,1972,1787],"class_list":["post-17113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-bianca-andreescu","tag-montreal","tag-olympics","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-court","tag-tokyo-olympics-2020","tag-wta"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}