{"id":16867,"date":"2025-08-16T23:50:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=16867"},"modified":"2025-08-16T23:50:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:50:40","slug":"elena-rebakina-defeats-defending-ch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2025\/08\/16\/elena-rebakina-defeats-defending-ch\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rebakina defeats defending champion Aryna Sabalenka to reach Cincinnati Open semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Elena Rebakina defeats defending champion Aryna Sabalenka to reach Cincinnati Open semi-finals<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Defending champion Aryna Sabalenka was convincingly beaten 6-1, 6-4 by Elena Rybakina, who powered her way into her first Cincinnati Open semi-final with a masterclass in serving.<\/p>\n<p>The Kazakh ninth seed secured her seventh career victory over a top-ranked opponent and will face Poland\u2019s Iga Swiatek, setting up a thrilling semi-final clash between two Wimbledon champions.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, third seed Iga Swiatek advanced to her first WTA 1000 semi-final in 15 months after defeating Russia\u2019s Anna Kalinskaya 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: PTV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Rebakina defeats defending champion Aryna Sabalenka to reach Cincinnati Open semi-finals Defending champion Aryna Sabalenka was convincingly beaten 6-1, 6-4 by Elena Rybakina, who powered her way into her first Cincinnati Open semi-final with a masterclass in serving. The Kazakh ninth seed secured her seventh career victory over a top-ranked opponent and will face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2305,2299],"tags":[3540],"class_list":["post-16867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","category-world","tag-cincinnati-open-tennis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16869,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16867\/revisions\/16869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}