{"id":224507,"date":"2025-10-19T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T12:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/224507\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T12:03:11","slug":"rybakina-captures-10th-career-title-in-ningbo-keeps-riyadh-hopes-alive-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/224507\/","title":{"rendered":"Rybakina Captures 10th Career Title in Ningbo, Keeps Riyadh Hopes Alive \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-lazyloaded=\"1\" width=\"997\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/rybakina-with-trophy-.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Elena Rybakina lost the opening set of Sunday\u2019s Ningbo final, a rude reminder that she was facing a talented Russian whom she had lost three of four previous matches to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Undaunted, the former Wimbledon champion struck back and claimed a hard-fought 3-6, 6-0, 6-2 victory to book her tenth career title and significantly increase her changes of reaching this year\u2019s WTA Finals in Riyadh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina, currently ninth in the race to Riyadh standings, needs to reach the semifinals next week in Tokyo to pass Mirra Andreeva for the final spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She won her second title of the year on Sunday, winning 12 of the final 14 games to improve to 2-3 lifetime against 10th-ranked Alexandrova.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More to follow.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina lost the opening set of Sunday\u2019s Ningbo final, a rude reminder that she was facing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-224507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}