{"id":848689,"date":"2026-09-15T14:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848689\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T14:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:30:10","slug":"marta-kostyuk-will-face-taylor-townsend-in-guadalajara-wta-500-second-round-ukraine-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848689\/","title":{"rendered":"Marta Kostyuk Will Face Taylor Townsend in Guadalajara WTA 500 Second Round | Ukraine news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:500;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5\">The American fought through a three-set opener to set up a rematch against a Ukrainian opponent who has beaten her twice.<\/p>\n<p>Marta Kostyuk has learned the identity of her opponent in the second round of the WTA 500 tournament in Guadalajara. The prize pool for the competition in Mexico is $1,206,446.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px;color: #666\">As reported by the online media outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.ua\/rubric-sports\/4164208-kostuk-diznalasa-ima-supernici-u-drugomu-koli-turniru-wta-500-u-meksici.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"outer_link\">Ukrinform<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian, who is ranked 11th in the world and is the top seed, will face American Taylor Townsend. Her opponent is ranked 96th.<\/p>\n<p>In the tournament\u2019s opening match, Townsend defeated Germany\u2019s Tatjana Maria. The match ended 6\u20137 (0\u20137), 6\u20133, 6\u20132.<\/p>\n<p>Kostyuk and Townsend to meet for the third time<\/p>\n<p>Marta Kostyuk\u2019s match against Taylor Townsend is scheduled for September 16. It will be the third meeting between the two players.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian tennis player won their two previous encounters. Kostyuk will therefore have an opportunity to extend her positive head-to-head record.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament in Guadalajara will run until September 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The American fought through a three-set opener to set up a rematch against a Ukrainian opponent who has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[358889,3,99,428],"class_list":["post-848689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-marta-kostyuk-taylor-townsend-guadalajara-wta-500-womens-tennis-wta-500","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848689","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=848689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}