{"id":274656,"date":"2025-11-06T07:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/274656\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T07:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:06:08","slug":"amanda-anisimova-beats-iga-swiatek-to-join-elena-rybakina-in-last-four-at-wta-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/274656\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Anisimova beats Iga Swiatek to join Elena Rybakina in last four at WTA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia \u2014 Amanda Anisimova reached the last four of the WTA Finals by beating second-ranked Iga Swiatek 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-2 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old American earned her second consecutive victory over Swiatek since losing to the Polish player 6-0, 6-0 in the Wimbledon final.<\/p>\n<p>Anisimova, ranked No. 4, had also eliminated Swiatek in the U.S. Open quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Anisimova got the first break of serve in the contest to take the second set to force a decider. She faced only four break points and saved each one.<\/p>\n<p>Elena Rybakina, who had already advanced to the semifinals, completed her round-robin phase with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Ekaterina Alexandrova.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina and Anisimova will learn their semifinal opponents after Thursday\u2019s final round-robin matches: top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka plays defending champion Coco Gauff; and Jessica Pegula faces Jasmine Paolini, who has already been eliminated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIYADH, Saudi Arabia \u2014 Amanda Anisimova reached the last four of the WTA Finals by beating second-ranked Iga&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-274656","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\/274656","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=274656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}