{"id":675572,"date":"2026-05-17T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/675572\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:38:10","slug":"ukraines-svitolina-wins-third-italian-open-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/675572\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s Svitolina wins third Italian Open title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina won the WTA 1000 Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia tournament in Rome, securing one of the biggest titles of her recent career.<\/p>\n<p>In the final, Svitolina, ranked No. 10 in the world, defeated Cori Gauff, who is ranked No. 4, in a nearly three-hour match.<\/p>\n<p>She took the win in three sets, 6\u20134, 6\u20137, 6\u20132, after a tightly contested second set that went to a tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p>The victory marks <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/elina-svitolina\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Svitolina\u2019s<\/a> 20th career WTA title and highlights her strong form against one of the top-ranked players on the tour.<\/p>\n<p>She previously won the tournament in 2017 and 2018, and reached the quarterfinals last year.<\/p>\n<p>Svitolina, a celebrated Ukrainian athlete originally from Odesa, serves as an ambassador for Bring Kids Back UA, President Volodymyr Zelensky&#8217;s initiative to return <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/russia-abducting-ukrainian-children\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukrainian children forcibly deported<\/a> by Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina won the WTA 1000 Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia tournament in Rome, securing one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-675572","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\/675572","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=675572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}