{"id":34886,"date":"2025-09-17T20:52:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/bjk-cup-elina-svitolina-and-marta-kostyuk-help-ukraine-beat-spain-to-reach-semi-finals-for-first-time\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T20:52:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:52:02","slug":"bjk-cup-elina-svitolina-and-marta-kostyuk-help-ukraine-beat-spain-to-reach-semi-finals-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/bjk-cup-elina-svitolina-and-marta-kostyuk-help-ukraine-beat-spain-to-reach-semi-finals-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"BJK Cup: Elina Svitolina and Marta Kostyuk help Ukraine beat Spain to reach semi-finals for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Elina Svitolina and Marta Kostyuk secured Ukraine&#8217;s place in the Billie Jean King Cup semi-finals for the first time with victory over Spain.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number 13 Svitolina held off Paula Badosa to win 5-7 6-2 7-5 and give Ukraine an unassailable 2-0 lead in the best-of-three tie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Svitolina had been 4-1 up in the third set before former world number two Badosa rallied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Badosa had a break point at 5-5 in the deciding set which, had she converted, would have left her serving for the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Svitolina held her off and broke serve in the next game to secure victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kostyuk earlier got Ukraine off to a winning start with a 7-6 (7-3) 6-2 victory over Jessica Bouzas Maneiro in Shenzhen, China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cg5ezvr3n14o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elina Svitolina and Marta Kostyuk secured Ukraine&#8217;s place in the Billie Jean King Cup semi-finals for the first time with victory over Spain. World number 13 Svitolina held off Paula Badosa to win 5-7 6-2 7-5 and give Ukraine an unassailable 2-0 lead in the best-of-three tie. Svitolina had been 4-1 up in the third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34888,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34886\/revisions\/34888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}