{"id":40430,"date":"2026-03-26T03:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/miami-open-elena-rybakina-battles-past-jessica-pegula-to-move-into-semis\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T03:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:40:05","slug":"miami-open-elena-rybakina-battles-past-jessica-pegula-to-move-into-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/miami-open-elena-rybakina-battles-past-jessica-pegula-to-move-into-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Open: Elena Rybakina battles past Jessica Pegula to move into semis"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Elena Rybakina beat Jessica Pegula for a fifth straight time to move into the Miami Open semi-finals, winning 2-6 6-3 6-4.<\/b><\/p>\n

Australian Open champion Rybakina<\/a> was the losing finalist in Miami in both 2023 and 2024, while her American opponent was runner-up in last year’s competition.<\/p>\n

Pegula, 32, took a 4-0 lead on her way to the first set, but Rybakina rallied and hit 15 aces and saved eight of 10 break points to come through.<\/p>\n

She will face either world number one Aryna Sabalenka in a rematch of the Australian Open final, or the unseeded American Hailey Baptiste in the last four.<\/p>\n

“It’s always very difficult playing Jessica,” said Rybakina, 26.<\/p>\n

“She started playing well, and I was rushing and frustrated, but I’m happy that I managed to bounce back and turn it around in the second set.”<\/p>\n

American fourth seed Coco Gauff and Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic play in the other semi-final on Thursday.<\/p>\n

If Gauff reaches the final<\/a>, she will overtake former world number one Iga Swiatek to move third in the WTA rankings next week.<\/p>\n

In the men’s draw, Jiri Lehecka overcame the challenge of unseeded Spaniard Martin Landaluce 7-6 (7-1) 7-5 to reach the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

The Czech 21st seed will face Tommy Paul or Arthur Fils for a place in the final.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Elena Rybakina beat Jessica Pegula for a fifth straight time to move into the Miami Open semi-finals, winning 2-6 6-3 6-4. Australian Open champion Rybakina was the losing finalist in Miami in both 2023 and 2024, while her American opponent was runner-up in last year’s competition. Pegula, 32, took a 4-0 lead on her way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40431,"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\/40430"}],"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=40430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40432,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40430\/revisions\/40432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}