A determined Julia Starodubtseva pushed a top seed but lost in a 90-minute battle, exiting Miami while fellow Ukrainians remain in the draw.<\/p>\n
The WTA 1000 tournament in Miami is underway, with a prize pool of about $9.5 million.<\/p>\n
Yulia Starodubtseva, ranked 108th in the WTA, in a 1 hour 30-minute match to reach the fourth round, lost to world No. 6 \u2013 American Amanda Anisimova \u2013 4-6, 2-6, according to the Ukrainian Tennis Federation.<\/p>\n
Starodubtseva is participating in Miami for the second time: last year the Ukrainian qualified and lost in the first round of the main draw.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian tennis players in the main draw of the Miami Open<\/p>\n
In the Miami Open main draw, Ukrainians Elina Svitolina, Marta Kostyuk, and Lyudmyla Kichenok (in doubles) continue to compete.<\/p>\n
The Florida-based tournament will run through March 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A determined Julia Starodubtseva pushed a top seed but lost in a 90-minute battle, exiting Miami while fellow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[3842,240926,240927,120380,3,99,428,240928,240929],"class_list":["post-537553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-amanda-anisimova","tag-amanda-anisimova-julia-starodubtseva-miami-open-wta-1000-ukrainian-tennis","tag-julia-starodubtseva","tag-miami-open","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-ukrainian-tennis","tag-wta-1000"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}