{"id":68475,"date":"2026-02-21T04:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=68475"},"modified":"2026-02-21T04:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:59:17","slug":"svitolina-pegula-reach-dubai-duty-free-tennis-championships-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/svitolina-pegula-reach-dubai-duty-free-tennis-championships-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Svitolina, Pegula Reach Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"read\">Ukraine\u2019s Elina Svitolina and American Jessica Pegula have qualified for the final of the 26th edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dubaiverse.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dubai<\/a> Duty Free Tennis Championships (WTA 1000), following their semi-final victories today at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">In the first semi-final, seventh seed and two-time Dubai champion (2017, 2018) Svitolina overcame third-seeded American Coco Gauff in a marathon match lasting three hours and three minutes. Svitolina secured her spot in the final with a 6-4, 6-7, 6-4 victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">The second semi-final saw fourth seed Jessica Pegula defeat her compatriot and second seed Amanda Anisimova. Despite dropping the first set, Pegula rallied to win 1-6, 6-4, 6-3 in a match that lasted two hours and two minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Svitolina and Pegula will face each other in the final on Saturday, competing for one of the most prestigious titles on the WTA 1000 circuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s Elina Svitolina and American Jessica Pegula have qualified for the final of the 26th edition of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships (WTA 1000), following their semi-final victories today at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium. In the first semi-final, seventh seed and two-time Dubai champion (2017, 2018) Svitolina overcame third-seeded American Coco Gauff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68477,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68475\/revisions\/68477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}