{"id":1393018,"date":"2026-05-14T08:21:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/svitolina-defeated-the-worlds-second-racket-a-match-with-swiontek-is-ahead\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:32:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:32:58","slug":"svitolina-defeated-the-worlds-second-racket-a-match-with-swiontek-is-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/svitolina-defeated-the-worlds-second-racket-a-match-with-swiontek-is-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Svitolina Stuns World No. 2 \u2014 Swiatek Showdown Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina made it to the semifinals of the prestigious WTA 1000 tournament in Rome. In the quarterfinals, the Ukrainian defeated the second-ranked Elena Rybakina in three sets\u20142:6, 6:4, 6: 4.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match lasted over two hours. After an unsuccessful first set, Svitolina turned the tide, became more confident on serve, and capitalized on her opponent&#8217;s mistakes. In the deciding set, the Ukrainian quickly seized the lead and secured the match.<\/p>\n<p>This is Svitolina&#8217;s fourth victory over Rybakina in eight head-to-head meetings.<\/p>\n<p>In the semifinals of the tournament, the Ukrainian tennis player will face the Polish player Iga Swiatek. The match will take place on May 14.<\/p>\n<p>After her successful performance in Rome, Svitolina also guaranteed herself a rise to at least eighth place in the WTA world rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina made it to the semifinals of the prestigious WTA 1000 tournament in Rome. In the quarterfinals, the Ukrainian defeated the second-ranked Elena Rybakina in three sets\u20142:6, 6:4, 6: 4. The match lasted over two hours. After an unsuccessful first set, Svitolina turned the tide, became more confident on serve, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1367518,"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-1393018","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\/1393018","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393023,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393018\/revisions\/1393023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1367518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}