Elena Rybakina entered Monday\u2019s match having lost her last four meetings with Iga Swiatek.<\/p>\n
That streak is over.<\/p>\n
WTA Finals:\u00a0Scores<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Draws<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Order of play<\/a><\/p>\n Rybakina rallied past the No. 2 seed 3-6, 6-1, 6-0 in 1 hour and 37 minutes to improve to 2-0 at this year\u2019s WTA Finals and take sole possession of first place in the Serena Williams Group. The victory puts her within reach of a semifinal berth in Riyadh, as she\u2019ll officially advance past the round-robin stage if Amanda Anisimova defeats Madison Keys later in the day.<\/p>\n Rybakina\u2019s win extends a dominant stretch of play not just in Riyadh, but across the entire Asian Swing. She\u2019s won each of the last eight matches she\u2019s contested, and 10 of the last 11, with the lone loss coming against world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka.<\/p>\n Perhaps even more impressive, she also became just the second player to beat Swiatek in 2025 after dropping the opening set, a feat previously accomplished by Keys at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n Swiatek is now 54-2 this season after winning the first set, while Rybakina improves to 8-15 when losing the opening set this year.<\/p>\n More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina entered Monday\u2019s match having lost her last four meetings with Iga Swiatek. That streak is over.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-241676","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\/241676","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=241676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}