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Enable Cookies<\/a> “I probably wouldn’t put myself in that situation (again),” Sabalenka said about having been two points away from losing the first set.<\/p>\n “I was just trying to stay aggressive and trying to find my rhythm. I was working for the second set already, but magically I was able to turn things around.<\/p>\n “I’m super happy with the performance and super happy to get this win in straight sets.”<\/p>\n Pegula sets up Rybakina clash<\/p>\n Pegula had earlier ensured at least one American would advance from the Stefanie Graf Group by claiming a dominant 6-2 6-3 victory over Paolini.<\/p>\n Pegula took just 63 minutes to see off the Italian, who had already been eliminated after losing her matches against Sabalenka and Gauff in straight sets.<\/p>\n Highlights of the WTA Finals match between Jessica Pegula and Jasmine Paolini.<\/p>\n The victory was Pegula’s first in straight sets since she beat Ajla Tomljanovic in the second round in Beijing in late September<\/p>\n “I finally got a straight sets win for the first time in a few months,” Pegula said.<\/p>\n “That always feels really good, but I thought I served really well and just played solid today. I was aggressive when I needed to be. There wasn’t much negative today.”<\/p>\n Pegula faces Elena Rybakina in Friday’s first semi-final, with the Kazakh player having won all three of her matches in the Serena Williams Group.<\/p>\n Watch the ATP and WTA Tour Finals, live on Sky Sports or stream with NOW<\/a> and the Sky Sports app<\/a>, giving Sky Sports customers access to over 50 per cent more live sport this year at no extra cost. Find out more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka beat Coco Gauff in straight sets to book her place in the last four at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-248001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248001","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=248001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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