{"id":15461,"date":"2024-03-29T07:24:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T07:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/miami-open-elena-rybakina-beats-victoria-azarenka-to-reach-final\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T07:24:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T07:24:35","slug":"miami-open-elena-rybakina-beats-victoria-azarenka-to-reach-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/miami-open-elena-rybakina-beats-victoria-azarenka-to-reach-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Open: Elena Rybakina beats Victoria Azarenka to reach final"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Fourth seed Elena Rybakina moved into the Miami final for the second straight year with a gutsy win against Victoria Azarenka in a deciding tie-break.<\/b><\/p>\n

Kazakhstan’s Rybakina, 24, recovered from an awful second set to win 6-4 0-6 7-6 (7-2) against the Belarusian.<\/p>\n

Rybakina showed resilience in the final stages, having led 5-3 before losing serve at 5-4 as Azarenka levelled.<\/p>\n

The 2022 Wimbledon champion will face unseeded Danielle Collins or 14th seed Ekaterina Alexandrova in the final.<\/p>\n

Last year, Rybakina was beaten by Czech Petra Kvitova to the trophy as she aimed to complete the ‘Sunshine Double’ of back-to-back titles in Indian Wells and Miami.<\/p>\n

Now she is the favourite to land the WTA 1000 prize against American Collins or Russia’s Alexandrova on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“It was such a tough battle, this tournament was a target from day one and I’m glad I made it to the final,” said Rybakina, who missed Indian Wells earlier this month through illness.<\/p>\n

“I knew I would fight till the end and that’s what I did. I switched off my mind in the tie-break and just went for it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Fourth seed Elena Rybakina moved into the Miami final for the second straight year with a gutsy win against Victoria Azarenka in a deciding tie-break. Kazakhstan’s Rybakina, 24, recovered from an awful second set to win 6-4 0-6 7-6 (7-2) against the Belarusian. Rybakina showed resilience in the final stages, having led 5-3 before losing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15463,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15461\/revisions\/15463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}