{"id":640342,"date":"2026-04-30T10:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/640342\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T10:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:14:13","slug":"al-wahda-defeats-al-thawra-in-syrian-womens-basketball-league-final-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/640342\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Wahda defeats al-Thawra in Syrian Women\u2019s Basketball League final opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, April 30 (SANA) <a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/sport\/2305435\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2305435\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Al-Wahda<\/a> secured a 61\u201352 victory over city rival <a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/sport\/2311384\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2311384\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">al-Thawra<\/a> in the first game of the Syrian Women\u2019s Basketball League final on Wednesday at <a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/video\/2302552\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2302552\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Al-Fayhaa Sports Hall <\/a>in Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Wahda led 33\u201324 at halftime and maintained its advantage through the second half to seal the win and move one step closer to retaining the title it won last season.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams will meet again on May 2, with a third game scheduled for May 5 to decide the champion.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Thawra reached the final after defeating Al-Ahli 64\u201348 and 71\u201368, while Al-Wahda advanced by overcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/photos\/2309085\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2309085\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Al-Shabiba<\/a> 71\u201340 and 61\u201345.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Wahda now holds 10 league titles, compared with seven for Al-Thawra.<\/p>\n<p>N.J\/ABD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Damascus, April 30 (SANA) Al-Wahda secured a 61\u201352 victory over city rival al-Thawra in the first game of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-640342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640342","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=640342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}