{"id":270528,"date":"2025-11-08T18:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/270528\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T18:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:48:11","slug":"elena-rybakina-beats-no-1-ranked-aryna-sabalenka-to-win-wta-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/270528\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina beats No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka to win WTA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) \u2014 Elena Rybakina won the WTA Finals after beating No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 6-3, 7-6 (0) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The sixth-ranked Rybakina struck eight aces and converted the sole break of the match on the indoor hardcourt in Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was a second loss in the final of the season-ending tournament for Sablenka after the four-time Grand Slam winner lost to Carlone Garcia in the 2022 title match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion from Kazakhstan, was playing her first title match in her third consecutive WTA Finals appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She collected $5.23 million after going 5-0 at the event featuring the top eight women. The WTA said that was the largest payout in the history of women\u2019s sports. Sabalenka earned $2.7 million as runner-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sabalenka entered the match with an 8-5 head-to-head edge over her opponent and a 22\u20132 record in tiebreakers this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rybakina recorded her tour-best 45th hardcourt win of the season. The 26-year-old Kazakhstani became the 10th straight first-time winner of the WTA Finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) \u2014 Elena Rybakina won the WTA Finals after beating No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 6-3,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-270528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270528","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=270528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}