Cincinnati Open: Elena Rybakina Upsets Aryna Sabalenka to prepare a semi -final meeting with Iga Swiatek | Tennis News

Defense champion Elena Ribacena surprised Arena Sabalinka in the Cincinnati Open Championship to create a semi -finals with Iga Swiatek.

She played in her first championship since her loss in the Wimbledon Championship in July, the world was beaten from 6-1 6-4 by Rybakina in a little more than an hour on Friday.

Wimbledon Swimik champion will face the semi-finals on Sunday after the third seed fell to 6-3 6-4 on Anna Calinskaya earlier on Friday.

Rybakina continued to produce the strong shape that witnessed its arrival to the semi -finals in Montreal last week before being hit by the shock winner Victoria Mouboko.

The Wimbledon Championship for the year 2022 struck 11 lands that were overwhelming because it avoided breaking it in service, with Sabalinka failed to take any of the five rest points – one of which came in the first match of the match.

After collapsing twice to reduce the first group, Rybakina erupted early from the second group to advance 2-1, before reaching two points in the penultimate service game to stay in the front.

She finally ended the task easily, as she clung to see a victory that guarantees that she will keep at least one place of its current location of the world rankings.

Swiaatek from Poland got a decisive break to move 3-1 forward in the first group against 28th Kalinskaya, before rescuing itself while closing the opening match.

The husband exchanged breaks early from the second group, before Swiaatek collided again to go 4-3 in the foreground. Kalinskaya showed the flexibility to survive four games in the penultimate game in the game, but Swiaatek kept its composure to take the next opportunity moments after that.

On Sunday, winning Swiaatek would put the previous world 1 to its first finals in WTA 1000 in 15 months and close its place in the Financial Tennis Federation Finals for the Fifth year in a row.

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