{"id":211019,"date":"2025-10-19T13:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/211019\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T13:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:06:06","slug":"rybakina-defeats-alexandrova-to-claim-milestone-ningbo-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/211019\/","title":{"rendered":"Rybakina defeats Alexandrova to claim milestone Ningbo title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Rybakina is nearly unstoppable when she\u2019s in peak form. Ekaterina Alexandrova learned that the hard way Sunday in Ningbo.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina rallied from a set down &#8212; winning nine consecutive games between the second and third sets &#8212; to claim the 2025 AUX \u00b7 Ningbo Open title, defeating Alexandrova 3-6, 6-0, 6-2 in just under two hours.<\/p>\n<p>The win marks Rybakina\u2019s milestone 10th career WTA title and her second of the season, both at the WTA 500 level.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s her third straight victory in a WTA final and moves her one step closer to qualifying for the year-end WTA finals in Riyadh. She now heads to Tokyo, where she must reach at least the semifinals to overtake Mirra Andreeva for the final spot. Otherwise, she\u2019ll enter only as the first alternate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you so much to my team for always pushing me to be better,\u201d Rybakina said during the trophy presentation. \u201cEspecially at the end of the season, it\u2019s not easy, but without you I would not be here. So, thanks again, and hopefully we can push a little more next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina is nearly unstoppable when she\u2019s in peak form. Ekaterina Alexandrova learned that the hard way Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-211019","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-text","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211019","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=211019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}