{"id":269606,"date":"2025-11-07T21:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/269606\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T21:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:12:15","slug":"rybakina-beats-pegula-to-move-into-wta-finals-title-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/269606\/","title":{"rendered":"Rybakina beats Pegula to move into WTA Finals title match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3126\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elena Rybakina<\/a> reached the title match at the WTA Finals for the first time after beating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2113\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Pegula<\/a> 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 on the back of her big serve in the semifinals Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Top-ranked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3038\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> plays <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3221\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Anisimova<\/a> in the second semifinal later. That&#8217;s a rematch of the US Open final.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion from Kazakhstan, has won all four of her matches this week, advancing from the group stage for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>She hit 15 aces against Pegula and clinched the win on her first match point.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was not easy to come back but I&#8217;m glad I managed to find my way in the second set and win it in this three-sets battle,&#8221; Rybakina said. &#8220;The serve, when I needed it, helped me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pegula reached the final in 2023, losing to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3730\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iga Swiatek<\/a> 6-1, 6-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; Elena Rybakina reached the title match at the WTA Finals for the first time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-269606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269606","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=269606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}