{"id":887434,"date":"2026-09-08T02:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T02:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/887434\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T02:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T02:22:11","slug":"us-open-2026-results-elena-rybakina-sweeps-aside-naomi-osaka-to-close-in-world-number-one-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/887434\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open 2026 results: Elena Rybakina sweeps aside Naomi Osaka to close in world number one ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rybakina, 27, dropped only four points in a near flawless performance on serve against four-time Grand Slam champion Osaka, who said after the match she was struggling with pain in her leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She faced the 28-year-old full of confidence, having not dropped a set in her opening three matches at the tournament, and took control of the contest in a dominant first set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reigning Australian Open champion Rybakina opened up a double break over Osaka, before sealing the set in just 21 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Osaka showed greater resistance early in the second set but, after failing to convert her only break point of the match, Rybakina soon seized control again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She broke to go 4-3 up, before safely seeing out the rest of the match, with Osaka unable to contend with her opponent&#8217;s deep groundstrokes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rybakina sealed the match inside 66 minutes with her seventh ace of a match where she hit a total of 29 winners to Osaka&#8217;s nine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked about the gap of almost six years since her last major win, at the 2021 Australian Open, Osaka said: &#8220;I thought about it, and if I win another Grand Slam, it&#8217;s not going to change my life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s kind of crazy that I can say that, because I remember the first Slam that I won, it was, like, a huge whirlwind.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rybakina, 27, dropped only four points in a near flawless performance on serve against four-time Grand Slam champion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-887434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887434","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=887434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}