{"id":58386,"date":"2025-10-23T00:53:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/rybakina-and-alexandrova-to-the-ningbo-final-wta-stars-duel-12\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T00:53:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:53:51","slug":"rybakina-and-alexandrova-to-the-ningbo-final-wta-stars-duel-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/rybakina-and-alexandrova-to-the-ningbo-final-wta-stars-duel-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Rybakina and Alexandrova to the Ningbo final: WTA Stars&#8217; Duel!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Elena Rybakina Wins in Ningbo and Advances to the Final<\/h2>\n\nKazakh tennis player Elena Rybakina, former Wimbledon champion, broke a five-month drought without reaching a final, after a resounding 6-3, 6-2 victory over Jasmine Paolini in the semifinals of the Ningbo Open.\n\nRybakina displayed a dominant game, including 10 aces, although she had to overcome seven break points in an 89-minute match against Paolini, who was the second seed in the Chinese tournament.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I knew the match would be very difficult. Jasmine has played very well this season. She is a very tough opponent, and I knew I would have to give my best. I am happy to have stayed focused until the end and win in straight sets.<\/p><cite>Elena Rybakina<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nAfter staying in the semi-final phase at the Citi Open, the Canadian Open and the Cincinnati Masters in recent months, Rybakina will seek to add the Ningbo Open title to her record, thus adding a new success to that achieved at the WTA 500 clay event in Strasbourg on May 24th.\n\nThis victory keeps Rybakina&#8217;s hopes alive of participating in the end-of-season WTA Finals, after Paolini missed the opportunity to secure her place in the Turin tournament with a win on Saturday.\n\nIn the final, Rybakina will face Ekaterina Alexandrova, who is in the top 10 for the first time in her career. Alexandrova defeated Diana Shnaider with a score of 6-3, 6-4.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Rybakina Wins in Ningbo and Advances to the Final Kazakh tennis player Elena Rybakina, former Wimbledon champion, broke a five-month drought without reaching a final, after a resounding 6-3, 6-2 victory over Jasmine Paolini in the semifinals of the Ningbo Open. Rybakina displayed a dominant game, including 10 aces, although she had to overcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[427,175,9804,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-58386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tennis","7":"tag-elena-rybakina","8":"tag-final","9":"tag-ningbo-open","10":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58386","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=58386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}