{"id":199875,"date":"2025-10-09T08:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199875\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:06:09","slug":"ruthless-sabalenka-extends-winning-streak-at-wuhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199875\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruthless Sabalenka extends winning streak at Wuhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top-ranked Sabalenka&#8217;s streak includes winning titles at Wuhan in 2018, 2019 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">Earlier, Jessica Pegula recovered from an early service break in the third set to beat Ekaterina Alexandrova 7-5 3-6 6-3 and also advance to the final eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">Sixth-seeded Pegula, who lost in the China Open semi-finals last week, levelled the deciding set at 2-2, then won four of the last five games for victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">The win over No.9 Alexandrova came a day after Pegula needed seven match points to beat fellow American Hailey Baptiste in the second round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">It was Pegula&#8217;s sixth straight three-set match, and for the fifth time, she won.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t remember the last time I played two sets,&#8221; Pegula said. &#8220;But I&#8217;ve been competing really hard and I&#8217;ve been playing a lot of really good players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">&#8220;It was different conditions today with the roof closed and I think it took us a little while to get adjusted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">In night matches, No.2 Iga Swiatek is scheduled to play Belinda Bencic with No.3 Coco Gauff, coming off a semi-final loss to eventual champion Amanda Anisimova at the China Open last week, due to face Zhang Shuai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top-ranked Sabalenka&#8217;s streak includes winning titles at Wuhan in 2018, 2019 and 2024. Earlier, Jessica Pegula recovered from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-199875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}