{"id":617135,"date":"2026-04-19T13:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617135\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T13:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:07:09","slug":"rybakina-rolls-muchova-for-second-stuttgart-title-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617135\/","title":{"rendered":"Rybakina Rolls Muchova for Second Stuttgart Title \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Pagliaro | Sunday, April 19, 2026<br \/>Photo credit: Porsche Grand Prix Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Elena Rybakina passed her driver\u2019s test behind the wheel of a Porsche she won two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Rybakina was in the driver\u2019s seat in her Stuttgart final return.<\/p>\n<p>The top-seeded Rybakina rolled Karolina Muchova 7-5, 6-1 to capture her second Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart championship\u2014and the keys to her second Porsche.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisexpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\"  data-\/><\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina converted four of eight break points and never trailed in this final.<\/p>\n<p>It is the eighth straight Stuttgart win for Rybakina, who raised her career finals record to 13-12.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s final was deadlocked 5-all when Rybakina raced through seven straight games, putting Muchova firmly in the rear-view mirror.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Open champion Rybakina won her second title of the season, improving to a WTA-best 25-5 in 2026 as she moves to within 2,395 ranking points of world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, who skipped Stuttgart.<\/p>\n<p>This spirited title run saw Rybakina save match points winning a marathon 6-7(5), 6-4, 7-6(6) quarterfinal victory over former US Open finalist Leylah Fernandez before she stopped Mirra Andreeva 7-5, 6-1, in Saturday\u2019s semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Rybakina, who beat Iga Swiatek and Marta Kostyuk back-to-back to claim the 2024 Stuttgart crown, has now won five of her last six finals.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Doha champion Muchova rallied from 2-5 down to level the opening set at 5-all.<\/p>\n<p>Then Rybakina held at 15 for 6-5 and immediately applied pressure in the 12th game. Rybakina converted her third set point to build a one-set lead.<\/p>\n<p>Swinging freely, the 6\u2032 Kazakh tore through five games in a row to start the second set. Muchova held to halt the bagel. Rybakina ripped through eight consecutive points on serve to close her 13th career championship in 78 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Sunday, April 19, 2026Photo credit: Porsche Grand Prix Facebook Elena Rybakina passed her driver\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-617135","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\/617135","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=617135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}