{"id":523053,"date":"2026-03-14T11:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/523053\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:29:07","slug":"indian-wells-aryna-sabalenka-and-elena-rybakina-reach-wta-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/523053\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Wells: Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina reach WTA final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sabalenka said players should stop proceedings immediately and call for a video review for hindrance, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cz9qzkynvjlo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniil Medvedev&#8217;s dispute with Jack Draper<\/a> in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Briton Draper was penalised with a controversial hindrance call, after which Russian Medvedev was booed by some fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At 5-5 in the first set, Draper briefly stretched his arms out wide during a rally to signal he thought Medvedev&#8217;s forehand had gone long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rally continued for another seven shots before Medvedev netted a backhand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two-time Indian Wells finalist Medvedev then asked umpire Aurelie Tourte for a video review to see whether Draper had been guilty of hindrance &#8211; making an action or noise to disturb an opponent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After watching the replay several times on her tablet, Tourte told Draper she was ruling against him as &#8220;you did something different in the rally than you would normally do&#8221; and awarded Medvedev the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabalenka said players should stop proceedings immediately and call for a video review for hindrance, following Daniil Medvedev&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-523053","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\/523053","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=523053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}