{"id":472376,"date":"2026-06-02T13:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/472376\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:27:09","slug":"kostyuk-steers-past-svitolina-into-semis-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/472376\/","title":{"rendered":"Kostyuk steers past Svitolina into semis &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After splitting the first two sets, the decider began with five successive breaks of serve as Kostyuk went into the sitdown with a 3-2 lead.<\/p>\n<p>From that moment the 23-year-old put her foot to the metal to rattle through another three games and into the final four.<\/p>\n<p>As she began to address the crowd, her emotions came to the surface and once she&#8217;d composed herself dedicated the victory to her country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to give this match to Ukrainian people and to their resilience,\u201d Kostyuk said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so happy to be through to the semifinals but I want to thank Elina for this incredible match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kostyuk will be back on Thursday when she will meet No.8 seed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/48819-m.andreeva\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mirra Andreeva<\/a> to vie for a spot in Saturday\u2019s trophy showdown. One of them will reach a major final for the first time in their career.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After splitting the first two sets, the decider began with five successive breaks of serve as Kostyuk went&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-472376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}