As Elena Rybakina fights to stay in contention for a WTA Finals berth, every win counts regardless of how it comes.<\/p>\n
Ningbo: Scores<\/a> | Draws<\/a> | Order of play<\/a><\/p>\n On Thursday in Ningbo, she was forced to battle, suffering through a grueling 2-hour and 48-minute contest to defeat Dayana Yastremska 4-6, 6-7 (6), 6-3. Despite the physical toll and humid conditions, Rybakina was able to muster just enough strength to close out the match with her 10th ace.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a long day,\u201d Rybakina said after the match. \u201cThe conditions, with it being so humid, are unusual for us. But I\u2019m very happy I managed to win and thank you all so much for staying and supporting me.\u201d<\/p>\n The victory sends her to the Ningbo quarterfinals for the first time, where she\u2019ll face an in-form Ajla Tomljanovic for a spot in the semifinals.<\/p>\n More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Elena Rybakina fights to stay in contention for a WTA Finals berth, every win counts regardless of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428,1959],"class_list":["post-229319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229319","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=229319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}