{"id":659543,"date":"2026-06-26T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/659543\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:36:09","slug":"alena-ostapenko-lost-to-an-older-german-tennis-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/659543\/","title":{"rendered":"Alena Ostapenko lost to an older German tennis player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.inbox.eu\/w\/img\/c4\/5e\/c45e6aa8713ea36f8f-800x0.webp\" onerror=\"this.src=\" https:=\"\" onload=\"if(this.width &lt;= 1){this.src=\"\/><br \/>\n                                                            \u0410\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0430 \u041e\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043f\u0435\u043d\u043a\u043e<\/p>\n<p>In the semifinals, the German won the first set against Alena Ostapenko (Latvia) with a score of 6:1. In the second set, the Latvian withdrew due to health reasons while leading 2:1.<\/p>\n<p>In the final, Maria will face the winner of the match between Madison Keys (USA) and Petra Marti\u0107 (Croatia).<\/p>\n<p>If Maria wins the tournament, she will become the third oldest tennis player to win a WTA title, surpassing American Serena Williams, who won the tournament in Auckland at the age of 38 years and 3 months in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u0410\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0430 \u041e\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043f\u0435\u043d\u043a\u043e In the semifinals, the German won the first set against Alena Ostapenko (Latvia) with a score&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-659543","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\/659543","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=659543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}