{"id":1145482,"date":"2026-08-13T03:15:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1145482\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T03:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:15:02","slug":"svitolina-advances-to-wta-toronto-semifinal-as-gauff-and-rybakina-complete-the-lineup-ukraine-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1145482\/","title":{"rendered":"Svitolina Advances to WTA Toronto Semifinal as Gauff and Rybakina Complete the Lineup | Ukraine news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:500;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5\">A technical win, a three-set comeback, and a major Ukrainian challenge have reshaped the Toronto draw ahead of the final weekend.<\/p>\n<p>All semifinalists have been determined at the WTA 1000 National Bank Open presented by Rogers in Toronto. The prize money for the tournament in Canada exceeds $7.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>American Coco Gauff and Kazakhstan\u2019s Elena Rybakina claimed the final spots in the last four.<\/p>\n<p>How the WTA 1000 quarterfinals in Toronto ended<\/p>\n<p>World No. 4 Coco Gauff advanced to the semifinals after a walkover against Switzerland\u2019s Belinda Bencic. The American\u2019s opponent was ranked 14th in the WTA rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Elena Rybakina, the world No. 2, defeated Japan\u2019s Naomi Osaka in a tense match. The Kazakhstani player lost the opening set but managed to turn the match around and won 4:6, 7:6 (7:5), 6:4. Naomi Osaka was ranked 13th in the world before the match.<\/p>\n<p>In the quarterfinals, Elina Svitolina defeated \u201cneutral\u201d player Ekaterina Alexandrova, the world No. 19. The Ukrainian lost the first set before mounting a convincing comeback to win 3:6, 6:0, 6:3.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto tournament semifinal matchups<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Iga Swiatek (Poland, No. 8) \u2013 Elina Svitolina (Ukraine, No. 9);<\/li>\n<li>Coco Gauff (USA, No. 4) \u2013 Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan, No. 2).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The WTA 1000 tournament in Toronto will conclude on August 13. The winner will claim one of the most prestigious hard-court titles of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A technical win, a three-set comeback, and a major Ukrainian challenge have reshaped the Toronto draw ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1145483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4105],"tags":[6740,8729,26410,113007,12,79,1068,16,15,311496,311495],"class_list":["post-1145482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-coco-gauff","tag-elena-rybakina","tag-elina-svitolina","tag-national-bank-open","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wta-toronto-semifinal","tag-wta-toronto-semifinal-elina-svitolina-coco-gauff-elena-rybakina-national-bank-open"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117086029435103165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1145483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}