{"id":26350,"date":"2025-11-08T14:04:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T19:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/08\/elena-rybakina-defeats-world-no-1-aryna-sabalenka-to-win-wta-finals\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T19:04:52","slug":"elena-rybakina-defeats-world-no-1-aryna-sabalenka-to-win-wta-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/08\/elena-rybakina-defeats-world-no-1-aryna-sabalenka-to-win-wta-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina defeats world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka to win WTA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; Elena Rybakina defeated No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka 6-3, 7-6 (0) to win the WTA Finals on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina, ranked No. 6, made eight aces on Riyadh&#8217;s indoor hard courts and earned the only break of the match.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second loss for Grand Slam champion Sabalenka in the season finale after losing to Caroline Garcia in the 2022 title match.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion from Kazakhstan, was playing her first title match in her third consecutive WTA Finals appearance.<\/p>\n<p>She went 5-0 in the top-eight women&#8217;s event and raised $5.23 million. According to the WTA, this is the highest amount in women&#8217;s sports history. Sabalenka was the runner-up and earned $2.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka entered the match this year with an 8-5 lead over her opponents and a 22-2 record in tiebreakers.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina recorded her tour-best 45th win on hard court this season. The 26-year-old became the first winner of the WTA Finals for the 10th consecutive year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; Elena Rybakina defeated No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka 6-3, 7-6 (0) to win the WTA Finals on Saturday. Rybakina, ranked No. 6, made eight aces on Riyadh&#8217;s indoor hard courts and earned the only break of the match. It was the second loss for Grand Slam champion Sabalenka in the season finale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[223,27,529,111,530,224,24,30,42,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-26350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-aryna","9":"tag-defeats","10":"tag-elena","11":"tag-finals","12":"tag-rybakina","13":"tag-sabalenka","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-win","16":"tag-world","17":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26350","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=26350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}