{"id":430240,"date":"2023-03-18T06:59:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T10:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=430240"},"modified":"2023-03-18T06:59:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T10:59:42","slug":"rybakina-sweeps-past-swiatek-6-2-6-2-to-reach-indian-wells-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rybakina-sweeps-past-swiatek-6-2-6-2-to-reach-indian-wells-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Rybakina sweeps past Swiatek 6-2, 6-2 to reach Indian Wells final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Rybakina effortlessly defeated top-seeded Ida Swiatek 6-2, 6-2 on Friday to progress to the BNP Paribas Open final.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"pl\" dir=\"ltr\">SUPERB PERFORMANCE!<\/p>\n<p>Elena Rybakina dominates World No. 1 Iga \u015awi\u0105tek to advance to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BNPPARIBASOPEN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BNPParibasOpen<\/a> final!<\/p>\n<p>The World No. 10 will face Aryna Sabalenka for the title \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BgWnl7OiVL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/BgWnl7OiVL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis Channel (@TennisChannel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisChannel\/status\/1636917461173026817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rybakina needed only 76 minutes to see off her rusty opponent, whose dream of retaining the title from last year came to an abrupt end. The Kazakhstani star converted 82% of her first-serve points, while Swiatek could only manage a disappointing 42%.<\/p>\n<p>The Polish star got beaten up once again from Rybakina as the two clashed in the Australian Open in January, where Rybakina finished runner-up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t expect that I was going to play that good today,\u201d Rybakina said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had nothing to lose, I just wanted to come and enjoy. I played one of the best matches this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The current World No.10 will meet second-seeded Aryna Sabalenka, who also won a convincing 6-2, 6-3 semi-final match against Maria Sakkari, in the final on Sunday. The match will be played in the Southern California desert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be huge,\u201d said Sabalenka, who won the doubles title in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis tournament feels like a Grand Slam. I really want to hold this trophy as a singles champion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Rybakina effortlessly defeated top-seeded Ida Swiatek 6-2, 6-2 on Friday to progress to the BNP Paribas Open final. SUPERB PERFORMANCE! Elena Rybakina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":430241,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17471,17222,17698],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Kazakhstani player looked rock-solid","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/430240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/430240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430240"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=430240"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=430240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}