{"id":1360711,"date":"2026-02-20T22:23:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/elina-svitolina-defeated-gauff-and-reached-the-wta-1000-final\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:23:36","slug":"elina-svitolina-defeated-gauff-and-reached-the-wta-1000-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/elina-svitolina-defeated-gauff-and-reached-the-wta-1000-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Elina Svitolina defeated Gauff and reached the WTA 1000 final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina reached the final of the WTA 1000 tournament in Dubai.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the semifinals, Svitolina defeated world number four Coco Gauff in three sets – 6:4, 6:7 (13:15), 6:4. The match lasted 3 hours and 5 minutes.<\/p>\n

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It was a tense match between equal opponents. In the second set, it came down to a tie-break, where the American won, leveling the score at 1:1. However, in the third set, Svitolina put pressure on her opponent and reached the final.<\/p>\n

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The Ukrainian gave the tie-break of the second set from the fifth set point, missing three match points. In the deciding set, Svitolina saved two hidden match points on her serve in the ninth game, after which she made a key break and ended the match.<\/p>\n

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The tennis players played their fifth head-to-head match, and Svitolina defeated Gauff for the third time. In January 2026, the Ukrainian also defeated the American in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n

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In the final, which will take place on February 21, Elina Svitolina will face American Jessica Pegula.<\/p>\n

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Svitolina will be playing in the final of the tournament in Dubai for the third time in her career and will be fighting for her third title on these courts. She previously won here in 2017 and 2018.<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina reached the final of the WTA 1000 tournament in Dubai. In the semifinals, Svitolina defeated world number four Coco Gauff in three sets – 6:4, 6:7 (13:15), 6:4. The match lasted 3 hours and 5 minutes. It was a tense match between equal opponents. In the second set, it came […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":255196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76895],"class_list":["post-1360711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360711","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}