{"id":598831,"date":"2026-09-13T06:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T06:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598831\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T06:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T06:42:14","slug":"elena-rybakina-beats-aryna-sabalenka-to-win-the-us-open-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598831\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina beats Aryna Sabalenka to win the US Open title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Rybakina won her first US Open title and punctuated her climb to the top of women\u2019s tennis by beating Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina had already been guaranteed to replace Sabalenka at No. 1 in the rankings next week and, for good measure, took the U.S. Open title that Sabalenka had won the previous two years.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/aryna-sabalenka-IDLJFDQEZVEA3CKBRHTKMNZ6QM.jpg\" alt=\"Belarussian player Aryna Sabalenka.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Belarussian player Aryna Sabalenka. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p>It was the third Grand Slam title for Rybakina and the second this year \u2014 both against Sabalenka on hard courts. She opened the season by beating Sabalenka for the Australian Open title.<\/p>\n<p>This time, she stopped Sabalenka\u2019s 19-match winning streak at the US Open, where she hadn\u2019t lost since falling to Coco Gauff in the 2023 final.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina earned US$5.5 million, the largest prize in Grand Slam history, and tied Sabalenka and French Open winner Mirra Andreeva with a tour-high three titles this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina won her first US Open title and punctuated her climb to the top of women\u2019s tennis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,64,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-598831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}