{"id":552271,"date":"2026-04-26T21:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/552271\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T21:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:38:16","slug":"rybakina-prevails-in-tight-three-setter-against-zheng-in-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/552271\/","title":{"rendered":"Rybakina prevails in tight three-setter against Zheng in Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Rybakina found herself down a set to Zheng Qinwen for the second time this season on Sunday night in Madrid. And for the second time, she clawed back to score a three-set win over the Olympic gold medalist.<\/p>\n<p>Madrid:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/tournaments\/madrid-open\/scores\" data-tracking=\"true\" data-tracking-event=\"click_track\" data-tracking-component=\"link click\" data-tracking-category=\"content\" data-tracking-type=\"news\" data-tracking-detail=\"Scores\" data-tracking-widget-type=\"Article Widget\" data-tracking-widget-name=\"Article Page Widget\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scores<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/tournaments\/madrid-open\/draws\" data-tracking=\"true\" data-tracking-event=\"click_track\" data-tracking-component=\"link click\" data-tracking-category=\"content\" data-tracking-type=\"news\" data-tracking-detail=\"Draws\" data-tracking-widget-type=\"Article Widget\" data-tracking-widget-name=\"Article Page Widget\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Draws<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/tournaments\/madrid-open\/order-of-play\" data-tracking=\"true\" data-tracking-event=\"click_track\" data-tracking-component=\"link click\" data-tracking-category=\"content\" data-tracking-type=\"news\" data-tracking-detail=\"Order of play\" data-tracking-widget-type=\"Article Widget\" data-tracking-widget-name=\"Article Page Widget\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Order of play<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rybakina needed 2 hours and 21 minutes to complete the comeback, earning a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory to reach the fourth round of the Mutua Madrid Open. The win is her fourth over Zheng in five meetings at the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz level.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019ll face the winner of No. 21 seed Jelena Ostapenko and Anastasia Potapova next.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina found herself down a set to Zheng Qinwen for the second time this season on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-552271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552271","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=552271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}