{"id":190032,"date":"2025-10-10T08:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190032\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T08:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:34:07","slug":"wuhan-open-aryna-sabalenka-extends-tournament-winning-streak-to-20-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190032\/","title":{"rendered":"Wuhan Open: Aryna Sabalenka extends tournament winning streak to 20 matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sabalenka, who retained her US Open title in September, controlled the match against Rybakina, sealing the first set with a hold before breaking the Kazakhstani&#8217;s serve in the first game of the second. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite a few service wobbles in the closing stages, Sabalenka took a comfortable win to set up the tie with Pegula &#8211; a player against whom she has won eight of her 10 meetings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked about her consecutive wins at the tournament, four-time major winner Sabalenka  said she feels a &#8220;really great connection&#8221; with the fans in China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I feel at home every time playing here. Honestly, that&#8217;s just crazy,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, sixth seed Pegula was a set down against Siniakova before fighting back to take the second set unchallenged. She then clinched the set third for her 50th win of the season and boost her chances of qualifying for next month&#8217;s season-ending WTA Finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Friday&#8217;s other quarter-finals, third seed Coco Gauff faces Laura Siegemund while second seed Iga Swiatek takes on Jasmine Paolini, who is seeded seventh. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabalenka, who retained her US Open title in September, controlled the match against Rybakina, sealing the first set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-190032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}