{"id":721810,"date":"2026-07-31T23:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721810\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T23:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:31:10","slug":"tennis-wta-mubadala-dc-open-2026-osaka-takes-out-cocciaretto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721810\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis, WTA \u2013 Mubadala DC Open 2026: Osaka takes out Cocciaretto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Naomi Osaka, the No. 3 seed, beat Italy\u2019s Elisabetta Cocciaretto 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 on Friday to reach the semi-finals of the Mubadala DC Open for the first time. The Japanese, ranked No. 13, will face the winner between Alexandra Eala of the Philippines and No. 2 seed Elina Svitolina of Ukraine next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Osaka struggled to find her range in the first set but grew into the match, fighting back to level before closing it out in the third. It is her second semi-final of the season, and continues a strong recent run in which she has now won 10 of her last 12 matches. The result also marks her 20th career semi-final on hard courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Osaka had advanced to the quarter-finals after American Ashlyn Krueger retired while trailing 6-3, 3-1. Cocciaretto, ranked No. 71, reached the last eight by beating No. 8 seed Emma Navarro 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 and edging Denmark\u2019s Clara Tauson 4-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka, the No. 3 seed, beat Italy\u2019s Elisabetta Cocciaretto 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 on Friday to reach the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721810","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\/721810","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=721810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}