UNRÉAL 🌙 Just short of 3am in Montréal after 3h27m of play, No.3 seed Elena Rybakina comes from a set down to defeat Kasatkina 5-7, 7-5, 7-6(8) and reach the semifinals! #NBO23
Bad luck for Rybakina again in horrid projected route to China Open title
WTASunday, 01 October 2023 at 23:30
Kazakhstan’s tennis star Elena Rybakina has received a tough
opening round fixture in the China Open.
The 24-year-old is making a comeback after taking a small
break when she withdrew from the recently concluded Japan Open because of
illness.
Unfortunately for Rybakina¸ things are unlikely to get
easier for her as she is now set to face China’s Zheng Qinwen in the opening
round of the tournament. They will play on Monday.
Qinwen is rated one of the most highly-rated young women’s
players from Asia currently playing in the circuit.
She recently played in the quarterfinal of the US Open and
suffered a defeat to the current world number one Belarus’ Aryna Sabalenka with
a score of 6-1, 6-4.
On the other hand, Rybakina had a difficult time during the fourth
and final Grand Slam of the year where she lost to Romania’s Sorana Cirstea
with a score of 6-3, 7-6, 6-4.
The Moscow-born had a mixed year in the Grand Slams this
year. She started brightly in the Australian Open and lost to Sabalenka in the
final with a score of 4–6, 6–3, 6–4.
After that, her only notable performance came in Wimbledon
where her journey ended in the quarterfinal as she lost to Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur
with a score of 6-7, 6-4, 6-1.
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