{"id":648066,"date":"2026-05-04T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/648066\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:00:08","slug":"daria-kasatkina-wins-catalonia-open-to-claim-first-title-as-an-australian-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/648066\/","title":{"rendered":"Daria Kasatkina wins Catalonia Open to claim first title as an Australian citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Daria Kasatkina has won her first tournament since becoming an Australian citizen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Kasatkina defeated Germany&#8217;s Tamara Korpatsch 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 in a marathon Catalonia Open final in Vic, Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The clay-court tournament is a second-tier WTA 125 event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-05-03\/madrid-open-womens-final-marta-kostyuk-ukrainian-wins\/106635704\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kostyuk claims Madrid Open victory<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Ukraine&#8217;s Marta Kostyuk backflips after beating Russian Mirra Andreeva in the Madrid Open final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">WTA 125 events are considered the equivalent of men&#8217;s ATP Challenger tournaments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">But for Kasatkina, the triumph came after she slumped to her lowest world ranking for 11 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">She entered the tournament at 75 on the WTA standings, a far cry from her career-best ranking of eight, which she achieved in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Can&#8217;t describe how happy I am to lift this trophy after a long time of struggle,&#8221; Kasatkina wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Thanks everyone for your support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Russia-born Kasatkina switched allegiance to Australia last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">She became an Australian citizen in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daria Kasatkina has won her first tournament since becoming an Australian citizen. Kasatkina defeated Germany&#8217;s Tamara Korpatsch 2-6,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,313640,32599,2016,2020,85,237932,747,313641,26599],"class_list":["post-648066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-catalonia-open","tag-daria-kasatkina","tag-russia","tag-spain","tag-sports","tag-tamara-korpatsch","tag-tennis","tag-wta-125","tag-wta-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648066","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=648066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}