{"id":447401,"date":"2023-07-29T12:38:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T16:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=447401"},"modified":"2023-07-29T12:38:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T16:38:23","slug":"svitolina-to-face-azarenka-again-20-days-after-wimbledon-thriller","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/svitolina-to-face-azarenka-again-20-days-after-wimbledon-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Svitolina to face Azarenka again 20 days after Wimbledon thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elina Svitolina and Victoria Azarenka will compete again just 3 weeks after a blockbuster clash they produced at the Grand Slam on grass in London. The Citi Open in Washington shared its tournament main draw.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fi\">Washington DC WTA 500 R1:<\/p>\n<p>Elina Svitolina vs. Victoria Azarenka<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jos\u00e9 Morgado (@josemorgado) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josemorgado\/status\/1684972522842857480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the tournament in the USA capital city 1<sup>st<\/sup> round, the spectators could enjoy a match between Elina and Victoria again as that, without a doubt, will be the most interesting clash from the opening round.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the month, the Ukrainian won in 3 sets &#8211; 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (9) against the Belarusian in Wimbledon. Given the nationals of the tennis players, the tension on the court is visible each minute.<\/p>\n<p>Svitolina was very happy after defeating Azarenka in Wimbledon and even claimed that this was the happiest victory in her career.<\/p>\n<p>Elina added that the fact that her opponent is from Belarus gave her extra motivation, and she played for Ukraine, trying to make people back home happy with a win, which meant a lot to her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elina Svitolina and Victoria Azarenka will compete again just 3 weeks after a blockbuster clash they produced at the Grand Slam on grass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":447402,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20199,18069,17234],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[18071,20351,2515],"acf":{"announce":"The two tennis players will play in Washington.","video":[]},"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\/447401"}],"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=447401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/447401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447401"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=447401"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=447401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}