{"id":804369,"date":"2026-10-16T10:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T10:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804369\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T10:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T10:24:09","slug":"wuhan-open-britains-sonay-kartal-beats-elina-svitolina-to-reach-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804369\/","title":{"rendered":"Wuhan Open: Britain&#8217;s Sonay Kartal beats Elina Svitolina to reach semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking on court after her victory, Kartal said she knew &#8220;what a great fighter&#8221; world number six Svitolina is, so she &#8220;was never safe&#8221; in the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was solid composure from me throughout,&#8221; she added. &#8220;It&#8217;s breaking new ground for me this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I love playing here and on this court. The atmosphere was amazing, so big thank you to the crowd.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kartal had not dropped a set during her run to the quarter-finals at Wuhan, and she broke Svitolina early in the first to start on a positive note. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Svitolina then called for a medical timeout for treatment on her right arm, but she came back strong to take the second set 6-2 and send the last-eight tie to a decider. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two players were evenly matched in the third set but it was Kartal, using a protected injury ranking to play, who managed to break Svitolina&#8217;s serve at 5-4 and book her place in the last four. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the other quarter-finals, Polish 16th seed Maja Chwalinska faces Greek Maria Sakkari, while American Ann Li takes on six-time Grand Slam winner and seventh seed Iga Swiatek. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking on court after her victory, Kartal said she knew &#8220;what a great fighter&#8221; world number six Svitolina&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-804369","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\/804369","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=804369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}