{"id":538839,"date":"2026-04-19T04:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538839\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T04:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:29:18","slug":"marta-kostyuk-beats-annie-lee-in-rouen-reaches-wta-250-semifinal-ukraine-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538839\/","title":{"rendered":"Marta Kostyuk beats Annie Lee in Rouen, reaches WTA 250 semifinal | Ukraine news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:500;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5\">Kostyuk opened with a blistering 6:0 set then fought through a third-set decider. Her next challenge will be Tatjana Maria in the semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>In the quarterfinal match of the WTA 250 tournament in Rouen, France, Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk (WTA 28) and American Annie Li (WTA 36) faced off.<\/p>\n<p>The duel ended with Kostyuk\u2019s victory in three sets: 6-0, 6-7 (4-7), 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>The match lasted 2 hours and 4 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Kostyuk advances to the semifinals<\/p>\n<p>Marta Kostyuk advanced to the semifinals of the WTA 250 tournament in Rouen and will face Tatjana Maria (63, Germany).<\/p>\n<p>Veronika Podrez (209) also advanced to the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>The clash with Tatjana Maria will pave the way to the tournament final.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, Kostyuk continues her bid for the title in Rouen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kostyuk opened with a blistering 6:0 set then fought through a third-set decider. Her next challenge will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[185918,43091,185917,50,185919,101,91726,118,56,54,55,185920],"class_list":{"0":"post-538839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-annie-lee","9":"tag-marta-kostyuk","10":"tag-marta-kostyuk-rouen-wta-250-annie-lee-tatjana-maria-wta-semifinal","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-rouen-wta-250","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tatjana-maria","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom","19":"tag-wta-semifinal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538839","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=538839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}