{"id":539520,"date":"2026-04-19T14:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539520\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:29:08","slug":"elena-rybakina-beats-karolina-muchova-in-stuttgart-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539520\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina beats Karolina Muchova in Stuttgart final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kazakhstan&#8217;s Elena Rybakina beat Karolina Muchova in straight sets to clinch victory at the indoor clay-court tournament in Stuttgart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number two Rybakina came through a close first set against her Czech opponent and raced through the second to wrap up a 7-5 6-1 victory in one hour and 18 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the 26-year-old&#8217;s second title of 2026, following her Australian Open success in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is also the second time she has won the event in Stuttgart, which has a Porsche car as part of the winner&#8217;s prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/68868855\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously won the title<\/a> in 2024, she was initially unable to drive that year&#8217;s prize as she did not have a driving licence at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to say a big thanks to my team, without you guys it wouldn&#8217;t be possible,&#8221; said Rybakina. &#8220;Thank you for always pushing me to do better and improve every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Muchova&#8217;s run to the final followed her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/crm8nykp8lro\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">victory at February&#8217;s Qatar Open<\/a> and will leave her just outside the top 10 in the world rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan&#8217;s Elena Rybakina beat Karolina Muchova in straight sets to clinch victory at the indoor clay-court tournament in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-539520","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539520","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=539520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}