{"id":226439,"date":"2025-10-20T02:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T02:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/226439\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T02:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T02:15:09","slug":"elena-rybakina-beats-ekaterina-alexandrova-to-win-ningbo-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/226439\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina beats Ekaterina Alexandrova to win Ningbo Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NINGBO, China &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"ae8f3eaf-8166-d650-d429-6200edef59fd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3126\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elena Rybakina<\/a> stormed back from a set down to beat <a data-player-guid=\"b4dc27b2-146b-000e-3f5d-5e1431231999\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3182\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ekaterina Alexandrova<\/a> 3-6, 6-0, 6-2 in the Ningbo Open final on Sunday to win her 10th WTA title.<\/p>\n<p>The third-seeded Rybakina started slowly, falling behind to her Russian opponent 4-1 in the opener. She bounced back in the second and went on to dominate her fourth-seeded opponent, winning nine straight games and hitting 11 aces.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you so much to my team for always pushing me to be better,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Especially at the end of the season, it&#8217;s not easy, but without you I would not be here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was Rybakina&#8217;s second title of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Kazakhstan player&#8217;s late-season surge is keeping her in contention for the season-ending WTA Finals in Riyadh in November.<\/p>\n<p>It was a third straight loss in a WTA 500 final for Alexandrova.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to congratulate Ekaterina for a great week and a great season so far,&#8221; Rybakina said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NINGBO, China &#8212; Elena Rybakina stormed back from a set down to beat Ekaterina Alexandrova 3-6, 6-0, 6-2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-226439","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\/226439","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=226439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}