{"id":251147,"date":"2025-10-30T15:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/251147\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:22:08","slug":"ostrava-250-added-to-wta-calendar-february-2026-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/251147\/","title":{"rendered":"Ostrava 250 Added to WTA Calendar, February 2026 \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-lazyloaded=\"1\" width=\"612\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Krejcikova-US-Open-2025-Fourth-Round.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The WTA announced today that Ostrava in the Czech Republic will return to the WTA Tour calendar in 2026, staging a WTA 250 tournament in February.<\/p>\n<p>More, per the WTA:<\/p>\n<p>The city recently hosted a WTA 500 event from 2020 to 2022 and boasts PIF WTA World No.1 Aryna Sabalenka, Anett Kontaveit and Barbora Krejcikova as former singles champions.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 edition will be staged on indoor hard courts the week of February 2 at both the Ostravar Arena and the Ridera Tennis Club with a 30-player singles draw and a 16-team doubles draw.<\/p>\n<p>Two-time Grand Slam singles champion Krejcikova defeated Iga Swiatek in the 2022 final in Ostrava.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WTA announced today that Ostrava in the Czech Republic will return to the WTA Tour calendar in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-251147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251147","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=251147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}