{"id":212156,"date":"2025-10-09T16:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/212156\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T16:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:41:08","slug":"sabalenka-and-swiatek-advance-to-the-wuhan-open-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/212156\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabalenka and Swiatek advance to the Wuhan Open quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

WUHAN, China (AP) \u2014 U.S. Open champion<\/a> Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s winning streak at the Wuhan Open rolled on to 19 matches when she beat Liudmila Samsonova 6-3, 6-2 Thursday to advance to the quarterfinals of the WTA 1000-level tournament.<\/p>\n

Top-ranked Sabalenka\u2019s streak includes winning titles at Wuhan in 2018, \u201819 and \u201924.<\/p>\n

No. 2-ranked Iga Swiatek also advanced, winning 7-6 (2), 6-4 against Belinda Bencic, the former Olympic champion. <\/p>\n

Swiatek improved to a 5-1 career record over Bencic, including a straight-set win in the Wimbledon semifinals in July.<\/p>\n

In the late match, No. 3 Coco Gauff<\/a>, coming off a semifinal loss to eventual champion Amanda Anisimova at the China Open<\/a> last week, eased past Zhang Shuai 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka will next play eighth-seeded Elena Rybakina, who won 6-3, 6-4 over Linda Noskova and is seeking to earn an entry to the WTA Finals event in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

Swiatek\u2019s quarterfinals opponent is Jasmine Paolini, who advanced through the round of 16 when Clara Tauson retired when trailing 3-6, 6-1, 3-1. Gauff next plays Laura Siegemund.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Jessica Pegula recovered from an early service break in the third set to beat Ekaterina Alexandrova 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 and also advance to the final eight. Sixth-seeded Pegula, who lost in the China Open semifinals<\/a> last week, leveled the deciding set at 2-2, then won four of the last five games for victory.<\/p>\n

The win over No. 9 Alexandrova came a day after Pegula needed seven match points<\/a> to beat fellow American Hailey Baptiste in the second round.<\/p>\n

It was Pegula\u2019s sixth straight three-set match, and for the fifth time, she won.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t remember the last time I played two sets,\u201d Pegula said. \u201cBut I\u2019ve been competing really hard and I\u2019ve been playing a lot of really good players. It was different conditions today with the roof closed and I think it took us a little while to get adjusted.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WUHAN, China (AP) \u2014 U.S. Open champion Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s winning streak at the Wuhan Open rolled on to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[3842,652,40311,144,31290,5113,53792,21338,23994,2660,51732,23004,120879,78304,120878,99,428,29950],"class_list":{"0":"post-212156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-amanda-anisimova","9":"tag-aryna-sabalenka","10":"tag-belinda-bencic","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-clara-tauson","13":"tag-coco-gauff","14":"tag-ekaterina-alexandrova","15":"tag-elena-rybakina","16":"tag-hailey-baptiste","17":"tag-iga-swiatek","18":"tag-jasmine-paolini","19":"tag-jessica-pegula","20":"tag-laura-siegemund","21":"tag-linda-noskova","22":"tag-ludmilla-samsonova","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-tennis","25":"tag-wuhan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}