{"id":850987,"date":"2026-09-17T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/850987\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:30:12","slug":"guadalajara-open-marta-kostyuk-through-to-quarter-finals-without-playing-a-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/850987\/","title":{"rendered":"Guadalajara Open: Marta Kostyuk through to quarter-finals without playing a point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marta Kostyuk is through to the quarter-finals of the Guadalajara Open even though the top seed is yet to play a point in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Ukrainian received a first-round bye in Mexico and got a walkover in her scheduled second-round match on Wednesday, when Taylor Townsend withdrew because of an illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kostyuk, the world number 10, is now scheduled to get her tournament under way against the eighth-seeded Liudmila Samsonova of Russia, who edged Kayla Day 7-6 (7-4) 2-6 7-6 (7-5).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kostyuk claimed her maiden WTA 1000 title in Madrid in May and has reached the semi-finals of the French Open and Wimbledon this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Most recently the 24-year-old lost to sixth seed Linda Noskova in the last 16 of the US Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marta Kostyuk is through to the quarter-finals of the Guadalajara Open even though the top seed is yet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-850987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850987","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=850987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}