{"id":462881,"date":"2026-05-27T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/462881\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:51:09","slug":"starodubtseva-stuns-rybakina-in-comeback-thriller-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/462881\/","title":{"rendered":"Starodubtseva stuns Rybakina in comeback thriller &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starodubtseva, a former college player and tennis coach in the United States, returns to the Roland-Garros third round to meet either No.26 seed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/42515-h.baptiste\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hailey Baptiste<\/a> or China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/38639-x.wang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Wang Xiyu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, it\u2019s hard to describe. I\u2019m super happy. Elena is one of the top players, has had an incredible year,\u201d said the 26-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expected her to come back. You can\u2019t be thinking it\u2019s ever going to be easy, even at 3-0 up (in the decider), I had a feeling it wasn\u2019t going to be easy. That was so!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very hard third set, a very tough match, but I got it done! I\u2019m very proud I could do this today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starodubtseva, a former college player and tennis coach in the United States, returns to the Roland-Garros third round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-462881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}