{"id":643763,"date":"2026-06-17T15:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643763\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T15:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:48:13","slug":"svitolina-defeated-the-russian-player-and-advanced-to-the-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643763\/","title":{"rendered":"Svitolina defeated the Russian player and advanced to the second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"90\" data-end=\"238\">Ukraine\u2019s top-ranked tennis player, Elina Svitolina, got off to a strong start at the WTA 500 grass-court tournament in Berlin, confidently defeating Russia\u2019s Anna Kalinskaya.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"240\" data-end=\"433\">The Ukrainian dominated from the very first points and won the opening set 6-1, breaking her opponent\u2019s serve twice. In the second set, Svitolina continued to control the match and took a 4-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"435\" data-end=\"555\">With the score at that point, Kalinskaya withdrew from the match due to feeling unwell. The match lasted only 43 minutes in total.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"557\" data-end=\"709\">In the second round of the tournament, Svitolina will face German tennis player Eva Lys, who is of Ukrainian descent and is currently ranked 80th in the world.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"711\" data-end=\"735\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Source: WTA 500 Berlin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px 0px 22px;orphans:2;overflow-wrap:break-word;padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration-text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\">FIFA may <a style=\"box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;font-weight:400 !important;margin:0px;padding:0px;position:relative;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/ua.news\/ua\/sport\/fifa-mozhe-zminiti-protokol-finalu-chs-2026-zaradi-trampa\">change<\/a> the protocol for the 2026 World Cup final for Trump\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px 0px 22px;orphans:2;overflow-wrap:break-word;padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration-text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\">Seven young basketball players <a style=\"box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;font-weight:400 !important;margin:0px;padding:0px;position:relative;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/ua.news\/ua\/sport\/u-braziliyi-zaginuli-semero-iunikh-basketbolistiv\">have died<\/a> in Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s top-ranked tennis player, Elina Svitolina, got off to a strong start at the WTA 500 grass-court tournament&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-643763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643763","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=643763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}