{"id":893241,"date":"2026-09-12T17:24:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T17:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/893241\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T17:24:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T17:24:43","slug":"aryna-sabalenka-and-elena-rybakina-meet-for-another-major-title-in-the-us-open-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/893241\/","title":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina meet for another major title in the US Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina will finish the Grand Slam season the way it started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The top two women in the world rankings meet Saturday in the U.S. Open final, where Sabalenka will try to become the first player to win three in a row since Serena Williams from 2012-14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Even if she does, Rybakina will pass her on Monday and become No. 1 in the WTA rankings. Sabalenka has held the top spot for 99 consecutive weeks, but Rybakina gained enough points to unseat her by reaching the semifinals in Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rybakina got a start on cutting into the deficit by beating Sabalenka in the Australian Open final. The rematch Saturday makes this just the second time since the Australian Open became a hard-court event in 1988 that the same women will play in the finals of both tournaments. Stefanie Graf and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario did it in 1994.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rybakina also has won a Wimbledon title and is playing for her first U.S. Open trophy. To get it, she has to stop Sabalenka\u2019s 19-match winning streak at Flushing Meadows, where she hasn\u2019t lost since Coco Gauff beat her in the 2023 final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sabalenka won the two other meetings this season \u2014 both on hard courts \u2014 in Indian Wells and Miami. She leads their rivalry 10-7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> See AP\u2019s full tennis coverage here <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Brian Mahoney, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina will finish the Grand Slam season the way it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,77,82,593],"class_list":["post-893241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-international","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893241","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=893241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}