{"id":24735,"date":"2025-10-09T06:23:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T10:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/sabalenka-extended-wuhans-winning-streak-to-19-pegulas-advance\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T06:23:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T10:23:35","slug":"sabalenka-extended-wuhans-winning-streak-to-19-pegulas-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/sabalenka-extended-wuhans-winning-streak-to-19-pegulas-advance\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabalenka extended Wuhan&#8217;s winning streak to 19. Pegula&#8217;s Advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>WUHAN, China &#8212; U.S. Open champion Aryna Sabalenka defeated Liudmila Samsonova 6-3, 6-2 on Thursday, extending her Wuhan Open win streak to 19 matches and advancing to the quarterfinals of the WTA 1000-level tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Top-ranked Sabalenka&#8217;s winning streak includes title wins in Wuhan in 2018, 2019 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Jessica Pegula recovered from a break of serve early in the third set to beat Ekaterina Alexandrova 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 to advance to the last eight. Sixth-seeded Pegula, who lost in the China Open semifinals last week, tied the deciding set at 2-2 and then won four of her final five matches to take the title.<\/p>\n<p>The victory over world No. 9 Alexandrova came a day after Pegula needed seven match points to defeat fellow American Haley Baptiste in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>It was Pegula&#8217;s sixth consecutive three-set match and fifth win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t remember the last time we played two sets,&#8221; Pegula said. &#8220;But I&#8217;ve been competing really hard and playing against really good players. Today the roof was closed and the conditions were different than usual, so I think it took me a little while to adjust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the night matches, world No. 2 Iga Swiatek was scheduled to face Belinda Bencic, while No. 3 Coco Gauff, who lost to eventual champion Amanda Anisimova in the semifinals at last week&#8217;s China Open, was scheduled to play Zhang Shuai.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WUHAN, China &#8212; U.S. Open champion Aryna Sabalenka defeated Liudmila Samsonova 6-3, 6-2 on Thursday, extending her Wuhan Open win streak to 19 matches and advancing to the quarterfinals of the WTA 1000-level tournament. Top-ranked Sabalenka&#8217;s winning streak includes title wins in Wuhan in 2018, 2019 and 2024. Earlier, Jessica Pegula recovered from a break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[292,4005,6543,224,580,24,587,6542],"class_list":{"0":"post-24735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-advance","9":"tag-extended","10":"tag-pegulas","11":"tag-sabalenka","12":"tag-streak","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-winning","15":"tag-wuhans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24735","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=24735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}