{"id":22811,"date":"2025-10-10T09:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=22811"},"modified":"2025-10-10T09:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:04:04","slug":"relentless-sabalenka-marches-into-wuhan-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=22811","title":{"rendered":"Relentless Sabalenka marches into Wuhan semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"
Aryna Sabalenka powered into her 11th semi-final of the year with a 6-3, 6-3 win over eighth-seeded Elena Rybakina at the Wuhan Open on Friday.<\/p>\n

The world number one remains unbeaten in four tournament appearances at the event and will take a 20-0 record into her final-four showdown with Jessica Pegula on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The defending champion improved to 8-5 head-to-head against Kazakhstan’s Rybakina, whose bid for a WTA Finals berth has taken a hit with the loss.<\/p>\n

“Elena is a great player, very nice girl and always tough to play against,” said Sabalenka, the US Open champion.<\/p>\n

“We have a really huge history against each other, always great battles. She always pushes me to the limit to get the win.<\/p>\n

“I’m super happy with the performance today.”<\/p>\n

A rock-solid Sabalenka claimed a timely break of serve in game eight on her way to forging a one-set lead in 43 minutes in temperatures above 30C.<\/p>\n

Continuing to showcase some impressive all-court prowess, Sabalenka broke twice in the second frame to build a 4-1 advantage.<\/p>\n

Rybakina narrowed the deficit by getting one of the breaks back but couldn’t stop Sabalenka from marching into the final four and extending her winning streak to 10 matches.<\/p>\n

Sixth-seeded Pegula recorded her 50th win of the season with a 2-6, 6-0, 6-3 victory over Katerina Siniakova to reach a third consecutive semi-final, following Beijing and the US Open.<\/p>\n

Pegula’s last seven matches were all three-setters, contested within a 16-day period, and the American was successful in six of them.<\/p>\n

“I guess I’m in really good shape,” said the 31-year-old.<\/p>\n

“I definitely don’t think I need to play any more matches or work on any physical stuff because I’ve been able to battle through these matches and play very well.”<\/p>\n

She added: “Obviously I wish maybe it was more straightforward for my mental and physical state.<\/p>\n

“But if I win every match for the rest of my life in three sets I think I’ll be pretty happy.”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aryna Sabalenka powered into her 11th semi-final of the year with a 6-3, 6-3 win over eighth-seeded Elena Rybakina at the Wuhan Open on Friday. The world number one remains unbeaten in four tournament appearances at the event and will take a 20-0 record into her final-four showdown with Jessica Pegula on Saturday. The defending […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}