Entering Indian Wells, Aryna Sabalenka had lost back-to-back big finals to Elena Rybakina. Now, after the World No. 1 defeated the World No. 2 6-4, 6-3 in 1 hour and 19 minutes on Thursday night in Miami, she has once again flipped the rivalry\u2019s momentum in her favor and moved one win away from the coveted Sunshine Double.<\/p>\n
Miami:\u00a0Scores<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Draws<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Order of play<\/a><\/p>\n The win — her 10th in their tour-leading 17 WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz meetings — sends her to the final, where another prominent rival, Coco Gauff, awaits. In their head-to-head, Sabalenka and Gauff are level at six wins apiece.<\/p>\n Sabalenka is the first player to reach consecutive Miami Open finals since Rybakina in 2023 and 2024, and the first to do so as World No. 1 since Serena Williams from 2013 to 2015.<\/p>\n If she wants to go one step further and claim back-to-back titles at the event, Sabalenka will look to replicate what she did against Rybakina: turn a highly anticipated blockbuster into a commanding victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n More to come\u2026<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Entering Indian Wells, Aryna Sabalenka had lost back-to-back big finals to Elena Rybakina. Now, after the World No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,5516],"class_list":["post-207786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}