{"id":387551,"date":"2026-01-24T07:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T07:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387551\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T07:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T07:17:12","slug":"svitolina-defeats-shnaider-to-reach-australian-open-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387551\/","title":{"rendered":"Svitolina defeats Shnaider to reach Australian Open round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 23 \u2014 Elina Svitolina, the Ukrainian top tennis player, ranked 12th in Women\u2019s tennis association (WTA), <a href=\"https:\/\/champion.com.ua\/ukr\/tennis\/tenis-australian-open-svitolina-peremogla-rosiyanku-i-viyshla-v-1-8-finalu-1061928\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">defeated<\/a> Russia\u2019s Diana Shnaider, ranked 22th in WTA. With this victory Svitolina qualified in the round of 16 for the Australian Open.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Svitolina reached the Australian Open round of 16 for the sixth time and the round of 16 at Grand Slam tournaments for the 21st time overall. Last season Svitolina reached the quarterfinals in Melbourne, Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This was the first time Svitolina met Shnaider.\u00a0 Both players held serve early on, then traded breaks. The set went to a tiebreak, where Svitolina\u2019s experience prevailed, and she won 7\u20134.<\/p>\n<p>The second set was equally competitive. Svitolina broke her opponent\u2019s serve to go up 3\u20131 and closed the set 6\u20133. The match lasted 1 hour and 35 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In the round of 16, Svitolina will face Romania\u2019s Elena Gabriella Ruse, ranked 79th in WTA, or Russia\u2019s Mirra Andreeva, depending on who wins their match.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<p>Russian troops <a href=\"https:\/\/gwaramedia.com\/en\/russian-troops-advance-near-vovchansk-toward-highway-leading-to-kharkiv-war-monitors-say\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\">advance<\/a> near Vovchansk toward highway leading to Kharkiv, war monitors say<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d5f3ff\">Hi! Winter has come, and Russian airstrikes on power infrastructure disrupt our daily lives &amp; work a lot here in Kharkiv. Despite it all, we keep working to bring you reports from the city and the Kharkiv region. Please consider supporting our newsroom with <a href=\"https:\/\/buymeacoffee.com\/gwaramedia\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a one-time tip<\/a> or become a <a href=\"https:\/\/buymeacoffee.com\/gwaramedia\/membership\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">member of our community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1262\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/frame-10-1262x388.png.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-227049 lazy\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p>If you have found an error, highlight the necessary fragment and press Shift + Enter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 23 \u2014 Elina Svitolina, the Ukrainian top tennis player, ranked 12th in Women\u2019s tennis association (WTA), defeated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[26675,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-387551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-elina-svitolina","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387551","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=387551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}