{"id":565251,"date":"2026-03-26T08:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565251\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:36:08","slug":"tennis-top-2-women-aryna-sabalenka-elena-rybakina-to-clash-again-in-miami-open-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565251\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis\u2019 top 2 women Aryna Sabalenka, Elena Rybakina to clash again in Miami Open semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">World No 1 Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina on Wednesday booked a blockbuster semi-final at the Miami Open in a rerun of their Melbourne grand slam decider.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Defending champion Sabalenka held off big-hitting 45th-ranked American Hailey Baptiste 6-4, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">World No 2 Rybakina beat fifth-seeded American Jessica Pegula \u2013 runner-up to Sabalenka last year \u2013 2-6, 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They will return on Thursday at Hard Rock Stadium \u2013 home of the NFL\u2019s Miami Dolphins \u2013 to fight for a place in the final.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Rybakina beat Sabalenka in a nail-biting Australian Open final in January \u2013 the world No 1\u2019s only defeat in 2026 \u2013 but the Belarusian avenged it with victory in the Indian Wells final this month.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been playing a lot of matches, recently actually, and all of them have been a battle, all of them been a show,\u201d Sabalenka told the Tennis Channel. \u201cI\u2019m super-excited facing her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World No 1 Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina on Wednesday booked a blockbuster semi-final at the Miami Open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[620,30659,4909,64,63,6571,278292,5951,20336,2592,18938,78721,259688,27488,5140,7795,85,747,48017],"class_list":["post-565251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-american","tag-arthur-fils","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-open","tag-czech-jiri-lehecka","tag-dubai","tag-elena-rybakina","tag-france","tag-hailey-baptiste","tag-hard-rock-stadium","tag-indian-wells","tag-jessica-pegula","tag-miami","tag-miami-open","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tommy-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565251","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=565251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}