{"id":158902,"date":"2025-09-21T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158902\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:45:08","slug":"swiatek-wins-25th-career-title-in-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158902\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiatek wins 25th career title in Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase \u201cnumbers don\u2019t lie\u201d is a common misconception \u2013 especially in tennis.<\/p>\n<p>Take Sunday\u2019s Korea Open final for example, where Iga Swiatek was outperformed by Ekaterina Alexandrova in nearly every single statistical category, including total points won.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it was Swiatek who prevailed in Seoul, rallying to defeat Alexandrova 1-6, 7-6 (3), 7-5 in 2 hours and 41 minutes. The victory marked her third title of the season and the 25th of her career.<\/p>\n<p>She is now 25-5 all-time in WTA finals.<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The phrase \u201cnumbers don\u2019t lie\u201d is a common misconception \u2013 especially in tennis. Take Sunday\u2019s Korea Open final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747,83],"class_list":["post-158902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}