{"id":1358800,"date":"2026-02-17T13:12:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/svitolina-starts-the-wta-1000-in-dubai-live-stream-of-her-match-against-badosa\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:12:50","slug":"svitolina-starts-the-wta-1000-in-dubai-live-stream-of-her-match-against-badosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/svitolina-starts-the-wta-1000-in-dubai-live-stream-of-her-match-against-badosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Svitolina starts the WTA 1000 in Dubai: Live stream of her match against Badosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"80\" data-end=\"264\"><strong>Ukrainian tennis player <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Elina Svitolina<\/span><\/span> (No. 9 in the WTA rankings) learned her first opponent at <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">the WTA 1000 Dubai<\/span><\/span> hard court tournament in the UAE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"266\" data-end=\"379\"> In the second round of the competition, the seventh-seeded Ukrainian will play against Spaniard <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Paula Badosa<\/span><\/span> (No. 70 WTA).<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"381\" data-end=\"414\"> How Badosa approached Svetolina<\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"416\" data-end=\"599\"> In the first round, the Spanish tennis player confidently defeated Czech Republic&#8217;s <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1<\/span><\/span> (WTA No. 42) in two sets \u2013 6:3, 7:5. The match lasted 1 hour and 46 minutes.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"601\" data-end=\"624\"> History of confrontations<\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"626\" data-end=\"688\"> Svitolina has a positive record in matches against Badosa &#8211; 2:0.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"690\" data-end=\"836\"> In 2025, the Ukrainian defeated the Spaniard in the quarterfinals <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">of the Billie Jean King Cup<\/span><\/span> in a match between the national teams of Ukraine and Spain.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"838\" data-end=\"942\"> The tennis players also met in 2021 at the tournament in Eastbourne, where Svitolina again celebrated victory.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"944\" data-end=\"964\"> Where to watch the match<\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"966\" data-end=\"1163\"> A live text broadcast of the match will be available on sports portals. You can follow the match at this link: <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.ua\/player\/monfils-elina\/jyngIesG\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-start=\"1107\" data-end=\"1163\">https:\/\/www.flashscore.ua\/player\/monfils-elina\/jyngIesG\/.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1165\" data-end=\"1339\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> A close battle is expected, as both players have experience playing at the top level, and Svitolina is looking to make a strong start to her career at the prestigious tournament in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1165\" data-end=\"1339\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina (No. 9 in the WTA rankings) learned her first opponent at the WTA 1000 Dubai hard court tournament in the UAE. In the second round of the competition, the seventh-seeded Ukrainian will play against Spaniard Paula Badosa (No. 70 WTA). How Badosa approached Svetolina In the first round, the Spanish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1358904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1358800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1358904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}