{"id":938566,"date":"2026-10-23T22:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T22:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/938566\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T22:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T22:50:20","slug":"rybakina-overcomes-second-set-wobble-to-reach-ningbo-semi-finals-shnaider-up-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/938566\/","title":{"rendered":"Rybakina overcomes second-set wobble to reach Ningbo semi-finals, Shnaider up next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">World number one Elena Rybakina recovered from a second-set dip to beat Poland&#8217;s Katarzyna Kawa on Friday and reach the semi-finals of the Ningbo Open.<\/p>\n<p>Top seed and defending champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/rybakina-elena\/UDzElXdm\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rybakina<\/a> cruised through the opening set but was forced into a decider by the 128th-ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/kawa-katarzyna\/2kS2AMrn\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kawa<\/a> before sealing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/match\/tennis\/kawa-k-2kS2AMrn\/rybakina-e-UDzElXdm\/?mid=44GtNVPa\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6-1, 3-6, 6-1<\/a> victory.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow-born Kazakh Rybakina will face Russian sixth seed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/shnaider-diana\/028BdVOj\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Diana Shnaider<\/a> in the last four in eastern China.<\/p>\n<p>Shnaider overcame US fourth seed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/jovic-iva\/bmWvBlnL\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iva Jovic<\/a> in three sets. Canada&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/fernandez-leylah-annie\/8EI3pJOd\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leylah Fernandez<\/a> plays <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/bouzkova-marie\/WMS3AdAb\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marie Bouzkova<\/a> of the Czech Republic in the other semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina, 27, won the US Open for her third Grand Slam crown in September and usurped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/sabalenka-aryna\/vyhksgUB\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> as world number one in New York.<\/p>\n<p><img crossorigin=\"anonymous\" class=\"wcl-image_vG4MA\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/eea1fbb8-b62c-43a3-b661-5dae09ff861a.jpg\" alt=\"Match stats\" title=\"Match stats\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>Match statsFlashscore<\/p>\n<p>She was then stunned in the second round in Beijing at the start of this month, and pulled out of the Wuhan Open citing a foot injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number one Elena Rybakina recovered from a second-set dip to beat Poland&#8217;s Katarzyna Kawa on Friday and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":938567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-938566","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\/938566","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=938566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}