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<\/a><\/p>\nKostyuk converted five of six break point chances carving out a 4-6, 6-0, 6-2 win over Andreeva to advance to the Cincinnati Open quarterfinals today. Kostyuk, who beat 2017 US Open champion Sloane Stephens in round three, scored her second straight win over a Slam champion.<\/p>\n
The 10th-seeded Ukrainian avenged a 6-1, 6-3 loss to Andreeva in the Roland Garros semifinals. <\/p>\n
It was Kostyuk\u2019s third win in four meetings vs. Andreeva this year.<\/p>\n
Previously, Kostyuk beat Andreeva 7-6, 6-3 in the Brisbane quarterfinals before posting a 6-3, 7-5 victory in the Mutua Madrid Open final on red clay.<\/p>\n
Down a set today, Kostyuk began imposing her all-court skills in cruising through seven games in a row to dish a second-set bagel and go up 1-0 in the third set.<\/p>\n
Kostyuk broke at 15 for 3-1 then fended off a break point to confirm the break for 4-1.<\/p>\n
Continuing her hunt for a Top 10 spot, the 11th-ranked Kostyuk is now 458 points behind US Open finalist Amanda Anisimova for the No. 10 spot.<\/p>\n
Next up for Kostyuk is either two-time Grand Slam champion Coco Gauff or 22nd-seeded Marie Bouzkova for a semifinal spot.<\/p>\n
Kostyuk was the best player on the court for stretches of the three-set doubles victory she and Peyton Stearns scored over 46-year-old Venus Williams and 44-year-old Serena Williams on Monday night.<\/p>\n
Today, Kostyuk amped up her aggression as the match progressed.<\/p>\n
No. 3-seeded Jessica Pegula outlasted Sorana Cirstea 6-2, 4-6, 7-5<\/p>\n
The 2024 Cincinnati finalist Pegula improved to a WTA-best 44-11 in 2026. <\/p>\n
Pegula, who captured her fourth career WTA 1000 title in Dubai earlier this year, will play either Wimbledon winner Linda Noskova or Anisimova for a semifinal spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August Marta Kostyuk beat the French Open champion for the third time in four meetings this year. Richard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-864226","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\/864226","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=864226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}