{"id":345599,"date":"2026-09-13T14:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345599\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T14:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T14:14:08","slug":"theres-a-new-tennis-force-in-town-elena-rybakina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345599\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a New Tennis Force in Town: Elena Rybakina"},"content":{"rendered":"

Would outlasting Sabalenka again, on a Saturday in New York City, to thwart Sabalenka\u2019s well-publicized attempt<\/a> at a U.S. Open three-peat, compel Rybakina to at least fall to the ground, as per tennis tradition? We\u2019re not asking for a hardcourt snow angel over here. But Rybakina\u2019s 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 victory over Sabalenka<\/a> in Saturday\u2019s U.S. Open final didn\u2019t just make her a first-time U.S. Open champion. By winning two majors this year, Rybakina became one of the standout global athletes, across sports, in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Monday, she\u2019ll take the world\u2019s No. 1 ranking from Sabalenka.<\/p>\n

How about a mere leap, Elena?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not here, not now. Rybakina, 27, just goes about her business. She aced Sabalenka, again, to clinch her third career major on Saturday. She raised her arms, hugged Sabalenka at the net, and clapped her racket, gently, as the Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd gave Rybakina her due. In a tournament marked by the \u201clook at me\u201d behavior of influencers<\/a> and other clout chasers\u2014in the stands blocking walkways and at times interrupting on-court proceedings with murmurs and selfies\u2014Rybakina sent the opposite message. That approach, combined with her 2026 performance, is certainly worth our admiration.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Would outlasting Sabalenka again, on a Saturday in New York City, to thwart Sabalenka\u2019s well-publicized attempt at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56,15547,78669],"class_list":["post-345599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-tennis","tag-u-s-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}