{"id":534964,"date":"2026-03-14T02:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T02:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534964\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T02:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T02:13:09","slug":"sabalenka-tops-noskova-to-reach-indian-wells-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534964\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabalenka tops Noskova to reach Indian Wells final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIAN WELLS, Calif. \u2014 Aryna Sabalenka, a two-time runner-up at Indian Wells, will get another shot at winning the event after beating Linda Noskova 6-3, 6-4 in the semifinals Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The top-ranked Sabalenka, from Belarus, dispatched Noskova in 1 hour, 28 minutes on Stadium Court 1 at the BNP Paribas Open.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka connected on 38 of 58 first serves against the 14th-seeded Noskova and notched 11 aces to reach the finale for the third time in four years. She will face either Elena Rybakina or Elina Svitolina in the championship Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka lost to Rybakina in the Australian Open final, her only setback in 2026. Sabalenka improved to 12-1 with the victory Friday after reaching the semifinals for the sixth consecutive WTA Tour event. Her last loss before that round came against Rybakina in the Cincinnati quarterfinals last August.<\/p>\n<p>Noskova kept it somewhat close by saving 7 of 10 break points while serving. The Czech fell to 0-2 against Sabalenka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIAN WELLS, Calif. \u2014 Aryna Sabalenka, a two-time runner-up at Indian Wells, will get another shot at winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-534964","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\/534964","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=534964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}