{"id":4395,"date":"2025-05-24T01:28:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T01:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/elena-rybakina-liudmila-samsonova-set-to-strasbourg-final\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T01:28:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T01:28:27","slug":"elena-rybakina-liudmila-samsonova-set-to-strasbourg-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/elena-rybakina-liudmila-samsonova-set-to-strasbourg-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina, Liudmila Samsonova set to Strasbourg Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Elena Rybakina and Liudmila Samsonova will meet in the final at the Internationalaux de Strasbourg in France.<\/p>\n<p>Seeded fourth in the tournament, Rybakina surpassed nine Beatriz Haddad Maia 7-6 (7), 1-6, 6-2 in 2 hours and 46 minutes on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina hit eight aces to save eight of the 11 breakpoints and fought the setpoint in the opening tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p>No. 8 seed Samsonova spent an easy time against unseeded Daniel Collins, winning the semi-finals 6-4, 6-2 in 87 minutes. She tallied four aces and saved five of her seven breakpoints.<\/p>\n<p>Samsonova won four of his five meetings with Rybakina. Rybakina won the latest clash in three sets in the Abu Dhabi semifinals in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reuters contributed to this report. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Rybakina and Liudmila Samsonova will meet in the final at the Internationalaux de Strasbourg in France. Seeded fourth in the tournament, Rybakina surpassed nine Beatriz Haddad Maia 7-6 (7), 1-6, 6-2 in 2 hours and 46 minutes on Friday. Rybakina hit eight aces to save eight of the 11 breakpoints and fought the setpoint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[529,63,531,530,532,150,533,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-4395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-elena","9":"tag-final","10":"tag-liudmila","11":"tag-rybakina","12":"tag-samsonova","13":"tag-set","14":"tag-strasbourg","15":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395","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=4395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}