{"id":622945,"date":"2026-09-13T01:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/622945\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T01:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:28:11","slug":"rybakina-dethrones-sabalenka-to-win-us-open-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/622945\/","title":{"rendered":"Rybakina dethrones Sabalenka to win US Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Rybakina proved herself to be the undisputed world number one after claiming her first US Open title.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old from Kazakhstan knew she would be top of the rankings from Monday, overtaking her opponent Aryna Sabalenka, whatever the outcome of Saturday&#8217;s final.<\/p>\n<p>A defeat would have certainly taken the shine off that achievement, but instead she was crowned the new queen of Queens at Flushing Meadows after a 6-4 5-7 6-2 victory.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aryna Sabalenka reacts against Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan in their Women's Singles Final match on Day Fourteen of the 2026 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 12, 2026 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0024fffc-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nAryna Sabalenka was unable to win a third US Open title in a row<\/p>\n<p>Two-time defending champion Sabalenka was looking to become only the third woman to achieve a New York &#8216;three-peat&#8217; in the Open era, after Chris Evert and Serena Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Instead she was left sat in her chair, furiously smashing her racket in to smithereens as Rybakina celebrated a third grand slam title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina proved herself to be the undisputed world number one after claiming her first US Open title.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-622945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}