On Thursday, May 14, Ukraine’s number one tennis player, Elina Svitolina (WTA 10), and Polish tennis player Iga \u015awi\u0119tek (WTA 3) will meet in the semi-finals of the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome.<\/b><\/p>\n
The match will start at approximately 22:30 Kyiv time.<\/p>\n
Having overcome<\/a> a very strong opponent from Kazakhstan, Elena Rybakina (WTA 2) in the quarter-finals \u2013 2:6, 6:4, 6:4 \u2013 Elina Svitolina faced a powerful Polish tennis player, Iga Swiatek, ranked third in the WTA rankings.<\/p>\n Svitolina and \u015awi\u0119tek have met six times. \u015awi\u0119tek has a 4-2 advantage in match wins. Furthermore, the Polish athlete performs best on clay, and the tournament in Rome is being held on a clay surface.<\/p>\n Therefore, \u015awi\u0119tek is the favorite in this match. However, Elina Svitolina has been more consistent this season than the Polish player and has already demonstrated that she is capable of beating any opponent.<\/p>\n You can watch the Iga Swiatek vs. Elina Svitolina<\/strong> match live on the official Setanta Sports<\/span><\/strong> and<\/span> Setanta Sports Premium platforms.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Alternative sources for viewing this fight\u00a0are available\u00a0here<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0here<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n You can watch a live text broadcast of the Iga Swiatek vs. Elina Svitolina<\/strong> match at this link<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Also follow “Pryamy” on Facebook<\/a>, X<\/a>, Telegram,<\/a> and Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Thursday, May 14, Ukraine’s number one tennis player, Elina Svitolina (WTA 10), and Polish tennis player Iga \u015awi\u0119tek (WTA 3) will meet in the semi-finals of the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome. The match will start at approximately 22:30 Kyiv time. Having overcome a very strong opponent from Kazakhstan, Elena Rybakina (WTA 2) in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1393365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76873,76895],"class_list":["post-1393375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-events","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393375","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393408,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393375\/revisions\/1393408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1393365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}