Oct 10, 2025, 06:28 AM ET<\/p>\n
WUHAN, China — Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> extended her winning streak at Wuhan to 20 matches with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over eighth-seeded Elena Rybakina<\/a> on Friday to reach the semifinals of the WTA 1000-level tournament.<\/p>\n The US Open champion won the Wuhan Open title in 2018, ’19 and again last year on her return to the Chinese city.<\/p>\n Top-ranked Sabalenka broke Rybakina’s serve three times in the 1-hour, 25-minute match to advance into the semifinals for the 11th time this season, and then waved and blew kisses to the crowd.<\/p>\n It was also comfortable for third-seeded Coco Gauff<\/a>, who cruised into a second straight semifinal with a 6-3, 6-0 victory over Laura Siegemund<\/a>.<\/p>\n The American lost to eventual champion Amanda Anisimova<\/a> in the final four at the China Open last week.<\/p>\n Gauff will next face either No. 2-ranked Iga Swiatek<\/a> or Jasmine Paolini<\/a>, who were playing in the late match.<\/p>\n Sabalenka will play sixth-seeded Jessica Pegula<\/a>, who earlier Friday went to a third set for a seventh consecutive match. She dropped the first set against Katerina Siniakova<\/a> before reeling through the next two for a 2-6, 6-0, 6-3 victory.<\/p>\n Pegula is coming off wins over No. 9 Ekaterina Alexandrova<\/a> and fellow American Hailey Baptiste<\/a>, when she needed seven match points to clinch the win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 10, 2025, 06:28 AM ET WUHAN, China — Aryna Sabalenka extended her winning streak at Wuhan to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-214110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214110","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=214110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}