{"id":539614,"date":"2026-03-14T08:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/539614\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:53:10","slug":"aryna-sabalenka-vs-elena-rybakina-final-wta-tennis-news-australian-open-rematch-preview-after-semi-final-victories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/539614\/","title":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka vs Elena Rybakina final; WTA tennis news; Australian Open rematch, preview after semi-final victories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>, a two-time runner-up at Indian Wells<\/a>, will get another shot at winning the event after beating Linda Noskova 6-3, 6-4 in the semi-finals on Saturday (AEDT).<\/p>\n

The top-ranked Sabalenka, from Belarus, dispatched Noskova in 1 hour, 28 minutes on Stadium Court 1 at the BNP Paribas Open.<\/p>\n

She will face third-ranked Elena Rybakina<\/a> of Kazakhstan in the final on Monday (AEDT).<\/p>\n

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\"Aryna<\/p>\n

Aryna Sabalenka reacts against Linda Noskova.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Rybakina handled ninth-ranked Elina Svitolina of Ukraine 7-5, 6-4 in the other semi-final.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka’s only loss in 2026 came against Rybakina in the Australian Open final.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka surely will be looking to avenge that one as well as her 0-2 record in Indian Wells finals.<\/p>\n

\"Winner<\/p>\n

Winner Elena Rybakina poses with runner-up Aryna Sabalenka.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“I’ll make sure that I’m more than ready, and I’ll bring my best tennis, make sure that this is the year,” Sabalenka said.<\/p>\n

“I just want to focus, I want to make sure that I get it, I get the trophy. I’m so done of losing these big finals. It felt like even though players were playing incredible tennis in those finals, I feel like I had so many opportunities that I didn’t use.<\/p>\n

“Right now my mentality, I’ll go out there and do everything I can to get that trophy.”<\/p>\n

Sabalenka improved to 12-1 in 2026 with her victory, which came after she reached the semi-finals for the sixth consecutive WTA Tour event.<\/p>\n

Her last loss before that round came against Rybakina in the Cincinnati quarter-finals last August.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka connected on 38 of 58 first serves against the 14th-seeded Noskova and notched 11 aces to reach the final for the third time in four years.<\/p>\n

“I would say that, yeah, serve was the biggest thing in this match,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I was trying to stay focused on my serve and try to put as much as pressure as I could on her serve. And, lucky me, I got this win.”<\/p>\n

Sabalenka has won eight of 15 meetings against Rybakina, with two of those losses coming in their last two matchups.<\/p>\n

“If you want to be on the top, you always have to search for something, for little details to add to your game so you can be really unpredictable,” Sabalenka said.<\/p>\n

“To have all those tools in your game, that definitely gives you so much of advantage over other players.”<\/p>\n

Rybakina won 78 per cent percent of her first serves against Svitolina, who double faulted eight times in their semi-final.<\/p>\n

It marked her 12th straight victory over top 10 opponents, a streak that began last October in China.<\/p>\n

“We know each other’s games very well,” Rybakina said.<\/p>\n

“It’s going to be a difficult match where we both are going to try to serve well, that’s for sure, put pressure, and we will see what’s going to happen.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka, a two-time runner-up at Indian Wells, will get another shot at winning the event after beating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-539614","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\/539614","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=539614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}