Streak SNAPPED 🙅♀️ No.4 seed Elena Rybakina ends the unbeaten run of two-time Stuttgart champ Swiatek to progress to her first #PorscheTennis final!
Queen of consistency: Elena RYBAKINA unlocks feat not achieved in 12 years in reaching fifth final of 2024
WTASunday, 21 April 2024 at 05:00
Elena Rybakina reaches her fifth final of the season and becomes the first player since Victoria Azarenka in 2012 to achieve this feat in the first four months of the year. The Kazakhstani will seek her third title of the season at the BMW Munich Open as she faces Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk (No. 27).
The 2022 Wimbledon champion secured the title in the first week of competition at the Brisbane International, defeating Aryna Sabalenka 6-0, 6-3. Later, she reached the final of the WTA 500 Abu Dhabi Open, this time overcoming Daria Kasatkina 6-1, 6-4. A week later, she fell in the final of the WTA 1000 Doha Open to Iga Swiatek 6-7, 2-6. Her previous final was at the WTA 1000 Miami Open, where she once again came up short, losing to local Danielle Collins (5-7, 3-6).
In the three matches she played in the tournament, she exceeded two hours of play and had to take the match to the third set. She began her journey by defeating Russian Veronika Kudermetova (No.19) 7-6(3), 1-6, 6-4. In the quarterfinals, she defeated Italian Jasmine Paolini (No. 14) by 6-3, 5-7, 6-3, and it took her almost three hours to defeat Iga Swiatek for the fourth time in her career.
The Ice Queen achieves a record of 25-4 victories (86.2%) this season (3-1 against top-10 players). This marks her fifth final of the season before the end of April, something no player had achieved since Victoria Azarenka's excellent start to the season in 2012.
The consistency of Rybakina is evident as she reached the final of the tournament in five of the seven tournaments she played, only failing at the Australian Open (defeat in the second round against Anna Blinkova) and in the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, where she withdrew before the quarterfinal match against Jasmine Paolini.
Rybakina at 2024 Miami Open final
Throwback to 2012 Victoria Azarenka season
The Belarusian started the season as world No. 3 and had an extraordinary streak of 26 consecutive victories. First, she won the Sydney International, then secured her first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open, where she also claimed the world No. 1 ranking by defeating Maria Sharapova in the final. She then went on to win the Qatar Open and Indian Wells titles but ended her streak in the quarterfinals of the Miami Open against world No. 7 Marion Bartoli.
Azarenka began the clay swing at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix and fulfilled her fifth final in less than four months but was defeated by world No. 2 Maria Sharapova. The 2-times Grand Slam champion then won four out of the five finals she contested.
During the rest of the season, she won two more titles at the China Open and Linz Open, besides finishing as the runner-up at the US Open against Serena Williams. Remarkably, Azarenka also won the gold medal in mixed doubles at the London 2012 Olympics, partnering with compatriot Max Mirny. She also won the bronze medal in singles.
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