{"id":540202,"date":"2026-04-20T00:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540202\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T00:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:17:11","slug":"marta-kostyuk-wins-all-ukrainian-battle-to-pick-up-rouen-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540202\/","title":{"rendered":"Marta Kostyuk wins all-Ukrainian battle to pick up Rouen crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">Top seed Marta Kostyuk won an all-Ukrainian duel for the WTA title in Rouen on Sunday with a straight sets win over Veronika Podrez.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/kostyuk-marta\/8CZqQdSa\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kostyuk<\/a> won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/match\/tennis\/kostyuk-m-8CZqQdSa\/podrez-v-j7lRpbCL\/?mid=EPUJwI6t\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6-3, 6-4<\/a> in the first WTA final between two Ukrainian players.<\/p>\n<p>She succeeded countrywoman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/monfils-elina\/jyngIesG\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elina Svitolina<\/a>, who won in Rouen last year as the top seed.<\/p>\n<p>For 19-year-old qualifier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/podrez-veronika\/j7lRpbCL\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Podrez<\/a>, ranked 209th in the world, it was a first final in her main draw debut at a tour-level event.<\/p>\n<p>Both Kostyuk and Podrez struggled on their serve in the indoor clay final, hitting 12 double faults between them.<\/p>\n<p>But Kostyuk converted six of her nine break point opportunities compared to Podrez, who converted four of seven in the tie, which lasted 1hr 12min.<\/p>\n<p>Kostyuk claimed her second WTA singles title and first in more than three years since her victory in Austin, Texas, in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top seed Marta Kostyuk won an all-Ukrainian duel for the WTA title in Rouen on Sunday with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-540202","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\/540202","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=540202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}