{"id":47288,"date":"2026-05-17T19:44:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/svitolina-defeats-gauff-in-3-sets-to-win-third-italian-open-title\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T19:44:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:44:42","slug":"svitolina-defeats-gauff-in-3-sets-to-win-third-italian-open-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/svitolina-defeats-gauff-in-3-sets-to-win-third-italian-open-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Svitolina defeats Gauff in 3 sets to win third Italian Open title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>ROME &#8212; Elina Svitolina won her third Italian Open title on Saturday, defeating Coco Gauff, who she lost to in the final for the second consecutive year in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Svitolina won 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-2 in nearly three hours to win her first WTA 1000 title since winning the title in Rome in 2018. The Ukrainian also won in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been eight years since I was here with this trophy. Of course I&#8217;m very, very, very happy with the two weeks here,&#8221; Svitolina said on court after winning her 20th career title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I told my coach that it would be nice to get a round number before the end of my career, and he said he hopes I can get it this year. So I&#8217;m very, very happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gauff had hoped to become the first American to win in Rome since 2016, but she won the French Open last year despite losing to Jasmine Paolini.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a great two weeks&#8230;I&#8217;m definitely feeling the momentum going into Roland Garros,&#8221; Gauff said. &#8220;I learned a lot from this match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gauff got off to a great start, defeating Svitolina and sticking to Love. She had chances to take a 5-2 lead, but Svitolina fended off three break points and won four games in a row to open the match.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff, ranked third in the rankings, struggled with her serve throughout the second set, but managed to force a tiebreak and level the match.<\/p>\n<p>However, Svitolina dominated the deciding match, breaking Gauff&#8217;s serve twice and keeping her serve for the title. World No. 7 Svitolina sealed the result with a volley at the net on her third match point.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME &#8212; Elina Svitolina won her third Italian Open title on Saturday, defeating Coco Gauff, who she lost to in the final for the second consecutive year in Rome. Svitolina won 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-2 in nearly three hours to win her first WTA 1000 title since winning the title in Rome in 2018. The Ukrainian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[27,399,31,32,710,1587,24,361,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-47288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-defeats","9":"tag-gauff","10":"tag-italian","11":"tag-open","12":"tag-sets","13":"tag-svitolina","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-title","16":"tag-win"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}