{"id":8823,"date":"2025-06-20T23:12:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T03:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/20\/sabalenka-saves-4-match-points-to-outperform-berlins-rybakina\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T23:12:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T03:12:41","slug":"sabalenka-saves-4-match-points-to-outperform-berlins-rybakina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/20\/sabalenka-saves-4-match-points-to-outperform-berlins-rybakina\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabalenka saves 4 match points to outperform Berlin’s Rybakina"},"content":{"rendered":"
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World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka showed steel nerves and champion resolve to beat Elena Rybakina 7-6 (6), 3-6, 7-6 (6) in the Berlin Open quarterfinals on Friday, saving four match points in the tiebreak in the final set.<\/p>\n

Rybakina led 6-2 on the decision breaker and showed up on the brink of securing a place in the semi-finals, but the momentum was shaking with the favor of Sabalenka after being denied a victory at the first match point on the netcode.<\/p>\n

The Belarusians rolled up five straight points and ultimately scored a victory as Rivakina swayed under pressure.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka’s grit and power proved decisive against the 2022 Wimbledon Champion. The first set was a seesaw fight, with Rivakina taking a 4-2 lead before Sabalenka came back straight. Both players held the serve from 4-4 to force a tiebreak, and Sabalenka closed it 8-6.<\/p>\n

Rybakina responded by taking a 2-0 lead in the second set and breaking again to close 6-3.<\/p>\n

The deciding set was heavily contested, with Sabalenka being destroyed 5-4, but was unable to compete in the match as Rivakina broke and held 6-5. Sabalenka was then pressured to force a tiebreak, creating the most dramatic twist of the match.<\/p>\n

“Elena, she’s a great player. We had a lot of tough fights in the final stages. She’s a great player and I think I’m just lucky how I could score the last points,” Sabalenka said after the match.<\/p>\n

“I just started, and I won a lot of games, and in reality I was like, “It’s been a while since I made a crazy comeback that long ago.”<\/p>\n

“It’s amazing to win a match like this. I’m proud to train your fighting spirit for the next tournament and try it all the way to the last point.”<\/p>\n

Sabalenka will face Czech Marketa Vondorsova, who has been aiming for her first final since winning Wimbledon in 2023. Bondrossova defeated Ons Jabeur 6-4, 6-1 in the rematch of the 2023 Wimbledon final.<\/p>\n

Chinese qualifying king Xinyu reached the semi-finals after eighth seed Paula Badosa retired due to correct hip injury during the quarter-final collision.<\/p>\n

Ranked 49th in the world, King was leading 6-1, 0-0 when Badosa escaped from the contest. The visibly annoyed Spaniard shaking her racket after the match and threw it across the court.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old King is enjoying a breakout week in the German capital, beating second seed Kokogoff in the previous round. She will then face either American Amanda Anisimova or Russian Lyudmira Samsonova.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka showed steel nerves and champion resolve to beat Elena Rybakina 7-6 (6), 3-6, 7-6 (6) in the Berlin Open quarterfinals on Friday, saving four match points in the tiebreak in the final set. Rybakina led 6-2 on the decision breaker and showed up on the brink of securing a place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2690,285,2752,272,530,224,2600,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-8823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-berlins","9":"tag-match","10":"tag-outperform","11":"tag-points","12":"tag-rybakina","13":"tag-sabalenka","14":"tag-saves","15":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8823","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=8823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}