Elena Rybakina (N°4 del ranking WTA) beat this Thursday Victoria Azarenka (32nd) 6-4, 0-6 and 7-6 (2) in the semifinals of the WTA 1000 in Miami and managed to get through second consecutive year in the definition for the title.
Elena Rybakina will play the final of the Miami Open again. Getty Images
The match really had everything. Despite the Kazakh’s solid start, the second set took a drastic turn that was very surprising. The Belarusian began to get up and won with a remarkable 6-0 to stretch the game to the third set. In that period she was intractable when going up to the net and with her volleys.
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But to give even more drama to the meeting, everything was decided in a tiebreak. There, mistakes began to play tricks on Vika and he ended up losing by just a few points.
With this victory, Rybakina will go for a new final in the same tournament where last year she lost the title to Petra Kvitova in straight sets. With this comeback, she became the second player to win a semi-final women’s singles in Miami after losing a set 6-0. The person who previously achieved it was Gabriela Sabatini, in 1991, against Steffi Graf.
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2024-03-28 22:43:35
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