{"id":418538,"date":"2026-01-20T10:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/418538\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T10:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:47:08","slug":"dominant-rybakina-serves-up-ticket-to-ao-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/418538\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominant Rybakina serves up ticket to AO second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe return was not going well, but then it was a matter of time, I was each game [getting] closer,\u201d Rybakina said. \u201cSome mistakes here and there, but it\u2019s [the] first match, hopefully I\u2019m just going to play better and better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At AO 2025, Rybakina fell to eventual champion Madison Keys in the fourth round, a result that preceded a solid season in which she captured three titles including the coveted WTA Finals crown in Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>If she can live up to her seeding, the Kazakh star is projected to reach next week\u2019s quarterfinals. Rybakina must first earn a third career win over second-round opponent Varvara Gracheva and will be buoyed by confidence from having never lost more than three games in a set against the Frenchwoman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe return was not going well, but then it was a matter of time, I was each game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-418538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418538","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=418538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}