{"id":495993,"date":"2026-03-26T07:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/495993\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:25:09","slug":"miami-open-elena-rybakina-beats-jessica-pegula-to-set-up-aryna-sabalenka-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/495993\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Open: Elena Rybakina beats Jessica Pegula to set up Aryna Sabalenka semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s always a battle, always a fight, always a challenge,&#8221; said Sabalenka, who beat Rybakina in their most recent encounter at Indian Wells this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We push each other to the limit, and we always bring the best tennis. I&#8217;m super excited playing her again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The semi-finals take place on Thursday, with American fourth seed Coco Gauff and Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic playing in the other match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If Gauff reaches the final, she will overtake former world number one Iga Swiatek to move third in the WTA rankings next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arthur Fils beat Tommy Paul 6-7 (3-7), 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-6) to reach the men&#8217;s semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neither player broke serve in a match that lasted two hours 47 minutes, with Fils winning five consecutive points in the third-set tie-break to secure his first ATP 1000-level semi-final in five attempts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old will face Jiri Lehecka in the semis after the Czech 21st seed beat unseeded Spaniard Martin Landaluce 7-6 (7-1) 7-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s always a battle, always a fight, always a challenge,&#8221; said Sabalenka, who beat Rybakina in their most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-495993","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\/495993","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=495993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}