{"id":492877,"date":"2026-03-24T16:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492877\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:19:09","slug":"in-form-talia-gibsons-dream-run-ended-by-elena-rybakina-at-miami-open-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492877\/","title":{"rendered":"In-form Talia Gibson\u2019s dream run ended by Elena Rybakina at Miami Open | Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Talia Gibson\u2019s impressive run at the Miami Open has come crashing down at the hands of world No 2 and two-time grand slam champion Elena Rybakina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The in-form 21-year-old Australian, who came through two rounds of qualifying in Florida before upsetting Czech Sara Bejlek, Japan\u2019s four-time slam winner Naomi Osaka and American teenage sensation Iva Jovic in the main draw, suffered a 6-2, 6-2 loss in her last-16 clash with Kazakh Rybakina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Gibson, who last week reached the quarter-finals at Indian Wells, was broken in the opening game and once more in the seventh to drop the first set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">She came up short on serve again at 2-2 and 4-2 down in the second set and 2024 and 2025 Miami runner-up Rybakina, who faced only one break point in the entire contest, and saved it, booked her place in the last eight after just 62 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">World No 1 Aryna Sabalenka and fifth seed Jessica Pegula also cruised to straight-sets wins. The Belarusian beat Zheng Qinwen 6-3 6-4 while the American downed Jaqueline Cristian 6-4 6-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Earlier on Monday (Tuesday AEDT), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/23\/victoria-mboko-mirra-andreeva-new-generation-friendly-rivals-miami-open-tennis\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Mboko gained some revenge<\/a> for her loss in the final of the Adelaide International to fellow teenager Mirra Andreeva.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In the quarters, 10th-seeded Mboko will have another shot at revenge as she faces Czech Karolina Muchova, who beat her in the Qatar decider last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Muchova, the 13th seed, defeated another young gun in 20-year-old Philippines world No 29 Alexandra Eala, 6-0, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Fourth seed and 2023 US Open and 2025 French Open winner Coco Gauff outlasted Sorana Cirstea 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 to set up a last-eight match with Belinda Bencic, a 6-2, 6-2 winner over sixth seed Amanda Asimova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Meanwhile, world No 3 Iga Swiatek has ended her coaching partnership with Wim \u200cFissette, following a disappointing start \u200cto the season that culminated in a shock early \u200cexit in Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The 24-year-old, who hired the Belgian in October 2024, said she had decided to take a different path after a 17-month \u200cstint that included \u200cher \u2060maiden Wimbledon title last year. However, \u200bThursday\u2019s loss to world No 50 and Polish compatriot Magda Linette proved a turning point for the six-time grand slam winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cMiami was challenging \u2060for me. I feel \u200cdisappointment, \u200bbitterness and responsibility for my performance on the court,\u201d Swiatek wrote \u200cin a social media post. \u201cI\u2019m grateful for [Fissette\u2019s] support, \u200bexperience, and everything we achieved together, including one of my biggest dreams in sport.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talia Gibson\u2019s impressive run at the Miami Open has come crashing down at the hands of world No&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-492877","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\/492877","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=492877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}