INDIAN WELLS, March 20 — Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina edged Aryna Sabalenka 7-6 (13/11), 6-4 yesterday to win the Indian Wells WTA title and avenge her loss to the...
INDIAN WELLS, March 20 — Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina edged Aryna Sabalenka 7-6 , 6-4 yesterday to win the Indian Wells WTA title and avenge her loss to the Belarusian in the Australian Open final.
While Sabalenka had the edge from the baseline in a hard-fought battle, Rybakina’s fierce pressure saw the serve demons that beset Sabalenka last year resurface.After fending off three break points in a marathon fourth game, she broke Rybakina to gain the advantage, but Sabalenka handed back the break with a double fault to close the eighth game.
Unable to convert her own two set points in the decider, Sabalenka’s 10th double fault of the set gave Rybakina her sixth set point and she took it. The Moscow-born Kazakh saved a pair of break points to push her lead to 3-1 and, with Sabalenka in survival mode, she ripped a backhand return up the line for a break that put her ahead 5-2.
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