{"id":114628,"date":"2026-03-19T10:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/sabalenka-vs-rybakina-indian-wells-final-with-a-taste-of-revenge\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T10:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:01:12","slug":"sabalenka-vs-rybakina-indian-wells-final-with-a-taste-of-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/sabalenka-vs-rybakina-indian-wells-final-with-a-taste-of-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabalenka vs Rybakina: Indian Wells final with a taste of revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Aryna Sabalenka Seeks Glory at Indian Wells<\/h2>\n\n\nBelarusian tennis player Aryna Sabalenka, two-time runner-up at Indian Wells, will have another opportunity to conquer the title. Sabalenka defeated Linda Noskova in the semifinals with a score of 6-3, 6-4.\n\nIn a match that lasted 1 hour and 28 minutes on the main court of the BNP Paribas Open, the world number one, Sabalenka, demonstrated her superiority.\n\nIn Sunday&#8217;s final, she will face Elena Rybakina, currently in third place in the ranking. Rybakina secured her place in the final by defeating Elina Svitolina with a score of 7-5, 6-4.\n\nSabalenka&#8217;s only defeat in 2026 was against Rybakina in the Australian Open final. Sabalenka will seek revenge, as well as break her 0-2 record in the Indian Wells finals.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I will make sure to be more than ready on Sunday and give my best tennis, so that this is my year.<\/p><cite>Aryna Sabalenka<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nWith this victory, Sabalenka improves her record to 12-1 in 2026 and reaches the semifinals for the sixth consecutive time in a WTA tournament. Her last defeat before this round was against Rybakina in the quarterfinals of Cincinnati in August.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0314%2Fr1628140_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Aryna Sabalenka, a two-time runner-up at Indian Wells, will face third-ranked Elena Rybakina in Sunday&#039;s final.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nSabalenka connected 38 of 58 first serves against Noskova, seeded number 14, and achieved 11 aces to reach the final for the third time in four years.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I would say that the serve was the most important thing in this match. I tried to stay focused on my serve and put as much pressure as possible on hers. And luckily, I got this victory.<\/p><cite>Aryna Sabalenka<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nSabalenka has won eight of the 15 matches against Rybakina, including two losses in their two most recent encounters.\n\nRybakina won 78% of her first serves against Svitolina, who committed eight double faults in her semifinal.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aryna Sabalenka Seeks Glory at Indian Wells Belarusian tennis player Aryna Sabalenka, two-time runner-up at Indian Wells, will have another opportunity to conquer the title. Sabalenka defeated Linda Noskova in the semifinals with a score of 6-3, 6-4. In a match that lasted 1 hour and 28 minutes on the main court of the BNP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[816,427,431,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-114628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-aryna-sabalenka","9":"tag-elena-rybakina","10":"tag-indian-wells","11":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}