{"id":34855,"date":"2018-06-21T12:01:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T12:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=34855"},"modified":"2018-06-21T12:01:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T12:01:07","slug":"elina-svitolina-beats-alize-cornet-eases-into-birmingham-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/elina-svitolina-beats-alize-cornet-eases-into-birmingham-quarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Elina Svitolina beats Alize Cornet, eases into Birmingham quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World number five Elina Svitolina continued her good form on grass ahead of Wimbledon, easing her way into the quarter-finals of the Nature Valley Classic in Birmingham on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The second seed Ukrainian found her rhythm early in the contest and powered past France\u2019s Alize Cornet 6-4 6-2 in one hour and 22 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old, chasing her first grand slam title, will hope to improve on her last-16 appearance at last year\u2019s Wimbledon, when she lost to Latvia\u2019s Jelena Ostapenko.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was expecting a good match and she (Cornet) was producing some great rallies,\u201d Svitolina said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe plays well against the top players, she beat a couple of them in the past, and she really steps up her game. I\u2019m very happy with the performance today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s Naomi Osaka was forced to retire due to an abdominal injury in her last-16 clash against Dalila Jakupovic, with the Slovenian qualifier leading 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s never nice to win when somebody\u2019s injured,\u201d the 27-year-old Jakupovic said. \u201cI was trying to focus on my play, and I didn\u2019t really look on her side. I hope (Osaka\u2019s) going to be better for the next tournaments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jakupovic will next take on Slovakia\u2019s Magdalena Rybarikova, who mounted a comeback to win 3-6 6-2 6-1 against world number 56 Kristina Mladenovic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World number five Elina Svitolina continued her good form on grass ahead of Wimbledon, easing her way into the quarter-finals of the Nature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34857,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34855\/revisions\/34857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}