{"id":47781,"date":"2026-05-27T13:33:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/elena-rybakina-withdraws-from-french-open-swiatek-3-ukrainians-win\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T13:33:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:33:58","slug":"elena-rybakina-withdraws-from-french-open-swiatek-3-ukrainians-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/elena-rybakina-withdraws-from-french-open-swiatek-3-ukrainians-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina withdraws from French Open, Swiatek, 3 Ukrainians win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina fell in the biggest upset to date at Roland Garros.<\/p>\n<p>World No. 2 Rybakina lost to 55th-ranked Ukrainian opponent Yulia Staroduptseva 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4) in the second round of the French Open on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>After a routine first set, the Kazakh players far outnumbered the winners as they struggled in the heat. Starodubtseva recovered to force a tiebreaker, but notched the biggest win of her career.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina committed 71 unforced errors and suffered her earliest Grand Slam defeat since losing in the second round at the 2024 US Open.<\/p>\n<p>On a big day for Ukraine, Elina Svitolina and Marta Kostyuk, who won titles at the Madrid Open and the Italian Open, respectively, also advanced.<\/p>\n<p>Seventh-seeded Svitolina extended her winning streak to eight with a 6-0, 6-4 victory over Kaitlyn Quevedo. The 15th-seeded Kostyuk extended her winning streak to 13 matches with a 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-3 victory over Katie Volinets.<\/p>\n<p>Iga Swiatek defeated No. 35 Sara Bezirek 6-2, 6-3 at Roland Garros, improving her career record to 42 wins and 3 losses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes there were moments where I made mistakes, but at the end I felt like I was the one in control of the game. It was up to me to finish this point or make a mistake,&#8221; Swiatek said. &#8220;In important moments, I had enough focus and patience to play well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek, a four-time French Open champion, will next face Magda Lynette in her first all-Polish tournament of her professional career (since 1968) at Roland Garros. Lynette defeated 2017 champion Jelena Ostapenko 6-2, 2-6, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Eleventh seed Belinda Bencic defeated Katie McNally (USA) 6-4, 6-0.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press and PA contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina fell in the biggest upset to date at Roland Garros. World No. 2 Rybakina lost to 55th-ranked Ukrainian opponent Yulia Staroduptseva 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4) in the second round of the French Open on Wednesday. After a routine first set, the Kazakh players far outnumbered the winners as they struggled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[529,151,32,530,774,24,9265,30,2927],"class_list":["post-47781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-elena","tag-french","tag-open","tag-rybakina","tag-swiatek","tag-tennis","tag-ukrainians","tag-win","tag-withdraws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47781","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=47781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}