{"id":412355,"date":"2023-02-12T11:34:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T16:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412355"},"modified":"2023-02-12T11:34:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T16:34:46","slug":"bencic-saves-3-match-points-to-beat-samsonova-and-win-abu-dhabi-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bencic-saves-3-match-points-to-beat-samsonova-and-win-abu-dhabi-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Bencic saves 3 match points to beat Samsonova and win Abu Dhabi Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"editor-paragraph \">Swiss second seed Belinda Bencic came back from a set down and saved three match points to beat 1-6 7-6(8) 6-4 to beat Russian Liudmila Samsonova and win the Abu Dhabi Open on Sunday &#8211; her second title of the season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2nd title of 2023 \ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BelindaBencic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BelindaBencic<\/a> saves three championship points before beating Samsonova 1-6, 7-6(8), 6-4 to become the inaugural <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MubadalaAbuDhabiOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MubadalaAbuDhabiOpen<\/a> champion! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hPXvO5nkEt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/hPXvO5nkEt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; wta (@WTA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA\/status\/1624800042073616384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1jtxuc8-0 fWbzXg body-paragraph\">Bencic, ninth in the world rankings, looked on course for a fourth straight loss to the 24-year-Russian after getting bulldozed in the first set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1jtxuc8-0 fWbzXg body-paragraph\">The Swiss, however, toughed it out to edge a nail-biting second set tiebreak \u2013 saving three championship points \u2013 and took the decider for a 1-6, 7-6, 6-4 victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1jtxuc8-0 fWbzXg body-paragraph\">With the title at the inaugural tournament at Zayed Sports City\u2019s International Tennis Centre, Bencic also becomes the first player to secure the UAE double, having won the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1jtxuc8-0 fWbzXg body-paragraph\">Bencic, who won the Adelaide International title last month, now makes her way to Doha and the Qatar Open for the second leg of the Middle East swing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m happy to finally beat you, after last year!&#8221; Bencic told Samsonova.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I&#39;m happy to finally beat you, after last year!&quot; \ud83d\ude05<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BelindaBencic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BelindaBencic<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MubadalaAbuDhabiOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MubadalaAbuDhabiOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/41xJZJk8Jt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/41xJZJk8Jt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; wta (@WTA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA\/status\/1624806373111529472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss second seed Belinda Bencic came back from a set down and saved three match points to beat 1-6 7-6(8) 6-4 to beat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412357,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16844,17460],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Swiss becomes the first player to secure the UAE double, having won the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships in 2019","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412355"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412355"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}