{"id":21371,"date":"2025-08-15T21:15:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/elena-rybakina-upppets-aryna-sabalenka-will-reach-cincinnati-semi-finals\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T21:15:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:15:42","slug":"elena-rybakina-upppets-aryna-sabalenka-will-reach-cincinnati-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/elena-rybakina-upppets-aryna-sabalenka-will-reach-cincinnati-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina Upppets Aryna Sabalenka will reach Cincinnati semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Defending champion Arena Sabalenka crashed from the Cincinnati Open after a 6-1, 6-4 loss to Elena Rivakina in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Rivakina appears to be violating the dominant opening set, and she dropped a lonely game and rounded out an impressive victory in just 1 hour and 14 minutes, offering 11 aces.<\/p>\n<p>The victory returns to Rivakina form, following the semi-finals at Toronto&#8217;s National Bank Open.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 Wimbledon winner will meet Iga Swiatek in the semi-finals after beating Anna Kalinskaya 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Alcaraz saw the lively Andrei Rublev to book his spot in the semi-finals of the competition with a 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Alkaraz scored the first set, but Rublev accidentally fought back in the second set, making it seem that Alkaraz sealed the victory when he broke Rublev to go 5-3, but his opponent went straight back and brought the contest back to serve.<\/p>\n<p>Rublev had to hold service to take the game to a tiebreak, but Alcaraz&#8217;s fatal double fault won.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old hits 11 aces on his way to victory, facing either Ben Shelton or Alexander Zverev.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Veronika Kudermetova set up the final four clashes with either Coco Gauff or Jasmine Paolini in a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Varvara Gracheva.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion Arena Sabalenka crashed from the Cincinnati Open after a 6-1, 6-4 loss to Elena Rivakina in the quarter-finals. Rivakina appears to be violating the dominant opening set, and she dropped a lonely game and rounded out an impressive victory in just 1 hour and 14 minutes, offering 11 aces. The victory returns to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[223,4274,529,197,530,224,1849,24,5826],"class_list":{"0":"post-21371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-aryna","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-elena","11":"tag-reach","12":"tag-rybakina","13":"tag-sabalenka","14":"tag-semifinals","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-upppets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}