{"id":35123,"date":"2026-09-18T12:26:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/guadalajara-open-marta-kostyuk-through-to-quarter-finals-without-playing-a-point\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T12:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:26:42","slug":"guadalajara-open-marta-kostyuk-through-to-quarter-finals-without-playing-a-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/guadalajara-open-marta-kostyuk-through-to-quarter-finals-without-playing-a-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Guadalajara Open: Marta Kostyuk through to quarter-finals without playing a point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Marta Kostyuk is through to the quarter-finals of the Guadalajara Open even though the top seed is yet to play a point in the tournament.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Ukrainian received a first-round bye in Mexico and got a walkover in her scheduled second-round match on Wednesday, when Taylor Townsend withdrew because of an illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kostyuk, the world number 10, is now scheduled to get her tournament under way against the eighth-seeded Liudmila Samsonova of Russia, who edged Kayla Day 7-6 (7-4) 2-6 7-6 (7-5).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kostyuk claimed her maiden WTA 1000 title in Madrid in May and has reached the semi-finals of the French Open and Wimbledon this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Most recently the 24-year-old lost to sixth seed Linda Noskova in the last 16 of the US Open.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cm4gvqzkk7xvo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marta Kostyuk is through to the quarter-finals of the Guadalajara Open even though the top seed is yet to play a point in the tournament. The Ukrainian received a first-round bye in Mexico and got a walkover in her scheduled second-round match on Wednesday, when Taylor Townsend withdrew because of an illness. Kostyuk, the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35125,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35123\/revisions\/35125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}