{"id":26297,"date":"2025-11-07T13:57:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/rybakina-defeats-pegula-to-advance-to-wta-finals-title-match\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:57:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:57:27","slug":"rybakina-defeats-pegula-to-advance-to-wta-finals-title-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/rybakina-defeats-pegula-to-advance-to-wta-finals-title-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Rybakina defeats Pegula to advance to WTA Finals title match"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; Elena Rybakina used a big serve to defeat Jessica Pegula 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in Friday&#8217;s semifinals to advance to the WTA Finals title match for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka will then face Amanda Anisimova in the second semifinal. It&#8217;s a rematch of the US Open final.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion from Kazakhstan, won all four matches this week to advance from the group stage for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>She hit 15 aces against Pegula and clinched the victory on her first match point.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t easy to come back, but I&#8217;m happy that I managed to find my way in the second set and win this three-set battle,&#8221; Rybakina said. \u201cSaab helped me when I needed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pegula reached the final in 2023, but lost to Iga Swiatek 6-1, 6-0.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; Elena Rybakina used a big serve to defeat Jessica Pegula 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in Friday&#8217;s semifinals to advance to the WTA Finals title match for the first time. Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka will then face Amanda Anisimova in the second semifinal. It&#8217;s a rematch of the US Open final. Rybakina, the 2022 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[292,27,111,285,2635,530,24,361,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-26297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-advance","9":"tag-defeats","10":"tag-finals","11":"tag-match","12":"tag-pegula","13":"tag-rybakina","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-title","16":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26297","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=26297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}