{"id":945678,"date":"2026-10-25T12:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T12:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945678\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T12:10:09","slug":"by-the-numbers-rybakina-wins-ningbo-open-for-tour-leading-fourth-title-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945678\/","title":{"rendered":"By the Numbers: Rybakina wins Ningbo Open for tour-leading fourth title of season"},"content":{"rendered":"

World No. 1 Elena Rybakina added another milestone to her standout 2026 season by defeating Canada’s Leylah Fernandez in straight sets to win the BNB Ningbo Open title Sunday.<\/p>\n

Rybakina needed just 1 hour, 16 minutes to defeat Fernandez 6-2, 6-2. She broke her opponent’s serve twice in each set and did not drop her own serve throughout the final.<\/p>\n

Sealed in style \ud83d\udcab The moment Elena Rybakina hit her 24th winner to clinch the #NingboOpen title. https:\/\/t.co\/twaJLuNkOL<\/p>\n

\u2014 wta (@WTA) October 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are some key numbers from Rybakina’s victory:<\/p>\n

3: This was Rybakina’s third consecutive tour-level win over Fernandez. She now holds a 4-2 lead in their head-to-head series on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz.<\/p>\n

4: This is Rybakina’s fourth title of the season, the most by any player in 2026. Her other titles this year came at the Australian Open, Stuttgart and the US Open.<\/p>\n

7: Ningbo is Rybakina’s seventh WTA 500 title. Her most recent title at this level before Ningbo came on the clay courts of Stuttgart earlier this year.<\/p>\n

8: Rybakina’s winning streak in Ningbo. She also won the title in her only previous appearance at the tournament last year, defeating Mirra Andreeva in the final.<\/p>\n

15: Ningbo marked the 15th singles title of Rybakina’s career. Nine of her 15 tour-level titles have come on hard courts.<\/p>\n

53: The win over Fernandez is her 53rd tour-level match win of the season, the most on tour. Mirra Andreeva and Jessica Pegula are tied for second with 50 wins each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World No. 1 Elena Rybakina added another milestone to her standout 2026 season by defeating Canada’s Leylah Fernandez…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593,5452],"class_list":["post-945678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945678","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=945678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}