{"id":856212,"date":"2026-08-13T05:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/856212\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T05:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:30:10","slug":"elena-rybakina-beats-coco-gauff-to-book-spot-in-nbo-final-against-iga-swiatek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/856212\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina beats Coco Gauff to book spot in NBO final against Iga Swiatek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Second-seeded Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan beat fourth-seeded Coco Gauff 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 early Thursday to reach the National Bank Open final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rybakina will play seventh-seeded Iga Swiatek of Poland on Thursday night. Swiatek outlasted ninth-seeded Elina Svitolina of Ukraine 6-3, 1-6, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot Rybakina finished off Gauff just before 1 a.m. to close the rain-delayed night session. Rybakina won the Australian Open and at Stuttgart this year to push her career victory total to 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In the first semifinal, Swiatek broke Svitolina\u2019s serve at love for a 5-3 lead in the third set. Swiatek then jumped out to a 40-0 lead before converting her second match point. The match began about an hour after the scheduled start because of rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Swiatek has 25 career victories.<\/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":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Second-seeded Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan beat fourth-seeded Coco Gauff 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 early Thursday to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-856212","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\/856212","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=856212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}