{"id":743377,"date":"2026-07-04T20:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/743377\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T20:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:31:15","slug":"no-2-seed-elena-rybakina-loses-in-wimbledon-3rd-round-to-elise-mertens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/743377\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 2 seed Elena Rybakina loses in Wimbledon 3rd round to Elise Mertens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion, was upset in the third round by Elise Mertens 7-6 (4), 6-1 at the grass-court Grand Slam on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>At No. 2, Rybakina is the highest seed on the women\u2019s side to be eliminated and her loss ensures that Aryna Sabalenka will keep her No. 1 ranking after the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina faces Naomi Osaka in the fourth round on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium\u2019s Mertens is the No. 25 seed at Wimbledon, where she\u2019s won two doubles titles.<\/p>\n<p>Later Saturday, Serena and Venus Williams were set to play a doubles match against Camila Osorio and Solana Sierra. Organizers hadn\u2019t assigned a court, only saying that it will be played after 4:30 p.m. local time (1530 GMT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion, was upset in the third round by Elise Mertens 7-6&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-743377","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\/743377","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=743377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}