{"id":140086,"date":"2025-09-16T01:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/140086\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T01:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:19:06","slug":"two-korean-players-eliminated-in-opening-round-of-wta-korea-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/140086\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Korean players eliminated in opening round of WTA Korea Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Back Da-yeon roars in celebration after defeating Latvia\u2019s Jelena Ostapenko in the round of 32 at the Hana Bank Korea Open 2023, a WTA Tour event, at Olympic Park Tennis Court in Songpa District, southern Seoul, on Oct. 10, 2023. [YONHAP]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5613cdaf-b18c-42c5-85cc-401ffd959026.jpg\"\/>                                              <\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Back Da-yeon roars in celebration after defeating Latvia\u2019s Jelena Ostapenko in the round of 32 at the Hana Bank Korea Open 2023, a WTA Tour event, at Olympic Park Tennis Court in Songpa District, southern Seoul, on Oct. 10, 2023. [YONHAP]<\/p>\n<p>                      \u00a0  <br \/>   Two Korean players were knocked out of the first round at the Women&#8217;s Tennis Association (WTA) tournament taking place on their home soil Monday.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>    Ku Yeon-woo lost to Lois Boisson of France in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1, in the round of 32 at the Korea Open at Olympic Park Tennis Center in Seoul.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>    Ku, 22, was also eliminated after her first match at her Korea Open debut in 2023 and then lost in the qualification round in 2024.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>    Boisson, world No. 49, had a stunning run to the semifinals at this year&#8217;s French Open\u00a0\u2014 the first to go that far at a French Open as a wild card since the start of the Open era in 1968. At 22 years and nine days old, Boisson also became the youngest French semifinalist in a women&#8217;s singles Grand Slam event since 1999.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>    Boisson will next face No. 2 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova in the round of 16.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>    Earlier Monday, Park So-hyun lost to Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic by 6-2, 6-2.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>    Siniakova is ranked 77th in the singles but No. 2 in the doubles. She won the women&#8217;s doubles title at the Australian Open and the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon this year.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>    She is also the 2021 Olympic champion in the women&#8217;s doubles and the 2024 Olympic gold medalist in the mixed doubles.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>    In the round of 16, Siniakova will meet Daria Kasatkina of Australia, world No. 16 and the 2024 Korea Open runner-up.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>    The losses by Ku and Park leave Back Da-yeon as the only Korean left in the tournament. She will face the defending champion from Brazil, Beatriz Haddad Maia, in her first round match Tuesday.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>    The Korea Open is the lone WTA tournament played in Korea each fall.  <\/p>\n<p>Yonhap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back Da-yeon roars in celebration after defeating Latvia\u2019s Jelena Ostapenko in the round of 32 at the Hana&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-140086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}