Elena Rybakina won her first repeat title with a 7-5 6-1 win over Karolina Muchova in the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix after first winning the tournament in 2024.<\/p>\n
The Kazakh took her 13th overall title in just 78 minutes, continuing her emphatic start to the year after also winning the Australian Open in January.<\/p>\n
Famously, the winner in Stuttgart is awarded a Porsche which they drive onto the court, however after her win in 2024, Rybakina had not yet passed her drivers’ test so used her prize to take, and pass, her test the following year.<\/p>\n
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This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies and other technologies. Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Twitter cookies. Enable Cookies<\/a> “It’s an amazing tournament, we love coming back here,” Rybakina said. “It really feels like home and \u200cyou just want to come back every year.<\/p>\n “Super happy for the second win here in Stuttgart and this beautiful car.”<\/p>\n While she exuded confidence in the final after reaching the end of the week with three straight-set victories, Rybakina also had to save two match points in a three-hour quarter-final against Leylah Fernandez.<\/p>\n But victory elevated Rybakina into \u200bexclusive company, making her just \u2060the fourth active player to win at least five WTA-level titles on \u2060multiple surfaces, joining an \u200belite group that includes Venus \u200bWilliams, Elina Svitolina and Iga Swiatek.<\/p>\n Elsewhere on Sunday Marta Kostyuk was victorious in an all-Ukrainian final against Veronika Podrez at the WTA Open de Rouen.<\/p>\n The first seed won 6-3 6-4 in one hour and 21 minutes to clinch her second WTA singles title and first in over three years.<\/p>\n “This match today was not just a match,” said Kostyuk. “It was a historical moment for Ukrainian tennis. First time two Ukrainians playing in the final. I know how much work, sacrifice, tears and sweat goes into this sport and to be able to be on this stage. So I’m incredibly proud of Ukrainian tennis right now.<\/p>\n “We have [five] Top 100 players, and I hope that this match, and me and Veronika, will be able to inspire more kids to try the sport, to pick up a racket for the first time and truly enjoy the emotion and passion and everything that this sport brings.”<\/p>\n Watch the ATP and WTA Tours, live on Sky Sports or stream with NOW<\/a> and the Sky Sports app<\/a>. Find out more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina won her first repeat title with a 7-5 6-1 win over Karolina Muchova in the Porsche…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-541226","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\/541226","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=541226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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