{"id":671849,"date":"2026-05-29T09:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/671849\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:32:22","slug":"french-open-no-2-seed-elena-rybakina-knocked-out-in-second-round-by-yuliia-starodubtseva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/671849\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open: No. 2 seed Elena Rybakina knocked out in second round by Yuliia Starodubtseva"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unseeded Yuliia Starodubtseva knocked out No. 2 seed Elena Rybakina 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (10-4) during Thursday\u2019s second-round action at Roland Garros.<\/p>\n

This is the first time Rybakina, who won the Australian Open in January<\/a>, has failed to reach the third round at Roland Garros since 2020. The 26-year-old Starodubtseva, who is No. 55 in the world, is at Roland Garros for the third time. As a lucky loser last year, she reached the third round before falling to Jasmine Paolini in straight sets.<\/p>\n

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After dropping the first set, Rybakina dominated the second set 6-1. In the final set, she fell down 3-0 before rallying to even the set 4-4. Starodubtseva managed to hold her serve twice and pounce on Rybakina’s mistakes as she ended with 71 unforced errors.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just proud of myself,\u201d Starodubtseva said after the match. \u201cIt was a hard third set.\u201d<\/p>\n

The victory is Starodubtseva’s first against a top-10 opponent, snapping a six-match losing streak.<\/p>\n

This is the earliest a No. 2 seed has lost at Roland Garros since Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 failed to defend her title after going out in the first round in 2022.<\/p>\n

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Starodubtseva will face either No. 26 seed Hailey Baptiste or qualifier Wang Xiyu of China next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unseeded Yuliia Starodubtseva knocked out No. 2 seed Elena Rybakina 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (10-4) during Thursday\u2019s second-round action…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[21338,51732,33366,99,293126,428,126703],"class_list":["post-671849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-elena-rybakina","tag-jasmine-paolini","tag-roland-garros","tag-sports","tag-starodubtseva","tag-tennis","tag-yuliia-starodubtseva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671849","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=671849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}