{"id":439573,"date":"2023-07-12T03:56:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T07:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=439573"},"modified":"2023-07-24T07:47:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T11:47:21","slug":"svitolina-upsets-swiatek-and-reaches-the-%c2%bd-final-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/svitolina-upsets-swiatek-and-reaches-the-%C2%BD-final-at-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Svitolina upsets Swiatek and reaches the \u00bd final at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elina Svitolina, world number 76, defeated world number 1, Iga Swiatek, by 2:1 sets and clinched the \u00bd finals at the Grand Slam on grass in the UK.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A five-star performance \ud83c\udf1f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElinaSvitolina?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ElinaSvitolina<\/a> defeats the world No.1 Iga Swiatek 7-5, 6-7(5), 6-2 to reach the semi-finals at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Wimbledon<\/a> once again <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l6nUu17KHj\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/l6nUu17KHj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon\/status\/1678789786402693123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian triumphed in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set after many breaks as she converted 3 and won 7-5 after allowing her opponent to break her serve 2 times.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set, both Elina and Iga won 1 opponent\u2019s serve, and the set reached a tiebreak. The world number 1 showed better nerves and won it 7-6 (5) to tie the clash.<\/p>\n<p>However, nothing like that happened when everyone expected that the Polish would easily win the deciding set. Elina dominated as the player from Ukraine converted 2 breaks from 5 chances and won the set 6-2 as she didn\u2019t allow any break chances to Swiatek.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Elina Svitolina advances past world No. 1 Iga \u015awi\u0105tek to represent Ukraine in her first Grand Slam semi-final since 2019 \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>She gave birth to her first child less than 9 months ago \ud83d\udc51 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UeKVsttvJ2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/UeKVsttvJ2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1678791229994041345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the \u00bd final, Svitolina will face world number 42, Marketa Vondrousova, that upset earlier in the day world number 4, Jessica Pegula.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Elina Svitolina on Iga Swiatek:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIga is not only a great champion, she\u2019s an unbelievable person. She was 1 of the first ones that really helped Ukrainian people. It was a huge help for Ukraine. It\u2019s not easy to play someone you share lots of good moments with.\u201d \ud83e\udd79 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KVxvcNXqxY\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/KVxvcNXqxY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1678791229302267905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elina Svitolina, world number 76, defeated world number 1, Iga Swiatek, by 2:1 sets and clinched the \u00bd finals at the Grand Slam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":439574,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20199,16763,17072],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"video":[],"announce":"Elina is a semifinalist at the Grand Slam in London."},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439573"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439573"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}