{"id":639866,"date":"2026-05-01T02:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/639866\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T02:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:21:07","slug":"kostyuk-reaches-biggest-career-final-in-madrid-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/639866\/","title":{"rendered":"Kostyuk Reaches Biggest Career Final in Madrid \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marta Kostyuk continued her run of pitch-perfect tennis on the red clay of Madrid on Thursday with a 6-2, 1-6, 6-1 victory over Anastasia Potapova. The Ukrainian is into her biggest career final to face 19-year-old Mirra Andreeva for the title on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\"  data-\/><\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>Kostyuk, who won the title in Rouen just under two weeks ago, has not lost on clay this season, and she\u2019s on her longest career winning streak as well.<\/p>\n<p>She returned aggressively throughout the contest and managed six breaks of serve against Potapova, including three breaks in a dominant third set as she rebounded from a shaky second set \u2013 her first losing set of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable, honestly, I think second set was really weird today,\u201d Kostyuk said. \u201cI haven\u2019t dropped a set all week, so to lose this, it felt kind of weird, but I\u2019m very proud with how I managed to just keep supporting myself. I wasn\u2019t playing the way I always play today, but I felt like this was the key.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kostyuk has defeated No.5 seed Jessica Pegula, No. 13 seed Linda Noskova along the way in Madrid to improve to 16-4 on the season and reach her third final (also Brisbane and Rouen).<\/p>\n<p>Kostyuk is 1-0 lifetime against Andreeva, having defeated her in straight sets in the quarterfinal in Brisbane earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marta Kostyuk continued her run of pitch-perfect tennis on the red clay of Madrid on Thursday with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-639866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}