{"id":1360864,"date":"2026-02-21T14:23:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wta-1000-final-in-dubai-svitolina-will-play-pegula-and-fight-for-a-third-title\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T14:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:23:29","slug":"wta-1000-final-in-dubai-svitolina-will-play-pegula-and-fight-for-a-third-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wta-1000-final-in-dubai-svitolina-will-play-pegula-and-fight-for-a-third-title\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA 1000 final in Dubai: Svitolina will play Pegula and fight for a third title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\" tabindex=\"-1\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&#038;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"f6179eb9-ab1f-456e-939b-a25bd37fd093\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-2\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[1px]\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word dark markdown-new-styling\"><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"262\"> <strong><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Elina Svitolina<\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Jessica Pegula<\/span><\/span> will face off in the WTA 1000 tournament decider in Dubai on Saturday. The final is scheduled to start at 5:00 PM Kyiv time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"262\"> For the Ukrainian tennis player, this is a chance to conquer the court in the UAE for the third time.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"264\" data-end=\"625\"> In the semifinals, Svitolina defeated <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Coco Gauff<\/span><\/span> in a tense battle, 6-4, 6-7 (13-15), 6-4. The match proved grueling: the second set stretched to a 28-point tiebreak, and in the deciding set, one game lasted 20 points. Despite squandering four match points in the second set, the Ukrainian still held on to win.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"627\" data-end=\"882\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> Ukraine&#8217;s No. 1 spent more than seven hours on the court during her three matches. Now she could make history: if she triumphs, it will be her third title in Dubai, following victories in 2017 and 2018\u2014and her third in three finals at this tournament. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"z-0 flex min-h-[46px] justify-start\"><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"804\" data-end=\"968\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/svitolina-vyyshla-v-1-8-finalu-wta-1000-u-dubai\/\">Elina Svitolina reached the 1\/8 finals<\/a> of the WTA 1000 in Dubai.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/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=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elina Svitolina and Jessica Pegula will face off in the WTA 1000 tournament decider in Dubai on Saturday. The final is scheduled to start at 5:00 PM Kyiv time. For the Ukrainian tennis player, this is a chance to conquer the court in the UAE for the third time. In the semifinals, Svitolina defeated Coco [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1359489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76895],"class_list":["post-1360864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360864","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=1360864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1359489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}