{"id":436352,"date":"2023-05-20T18:35:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T22:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436352"},"modified":"2023-05-20T19:24:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T23:24:34","slug":"elena-rybakina-wins-the-2023-italian-open-after-kalinina-retires","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/elena-rybakina-wins-the-2023-italian-open-after-kalinina-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina wins the 2023 Italian Open after Kalinina retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Rybakina, world number 6, triumphed with the 2023 Rome WTA Masters 1000 after Anhelina Kalinina retired after 1 game in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc21\ud835\udc1e \ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc30 \ud835\udc10\ud835\udc2e\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc27 \ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc1f \ud835\udc11\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc26\ud835\udc1e \ud83d\udc51<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc6 Elena Rybakina is the 2023 Ladies&#8217; Singles Champion! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IBI23?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#IBI23<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WTA<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lenarybakina?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@lenarybakina<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HuKzvY06Pz\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/HuKzvY06Pz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Internazionali BNL d&#8217;Italia (@InteBNLdItalia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InteBNLdItalia\/status\/1660044536297447427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rybakina won the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set 6-4 after breaking her Ukrainian opponent&#8217;s serve twice, including when Kalinina served to tie 5-5. Elena won the 1<sup>st<\/sup> game in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set to 15 as she served. After that, Kalinina took a medical timeout, but it became clear that she couldn&#8217;t continue the match.<\/p>\n<p>Elena again advanced in the \u00bc finals after her opponent Iga Swiatek retired in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">4 &#8211; Elena Rybakina is the fourth player in the Open Era to secure the title in Indian Wells and Rome in the same year after Martina Hingis in 1998, Kim Clijsters in 2003 and Iga Swiatek in 2022. Empress.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IBI23?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#IBI23<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InteBNLdItalia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@InteBNLdItalia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WTA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA_insider?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WTA_insider<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mFD66FfTgi\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/mFD66FfTgi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaAce (@OptaAce) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaAce\/status\/1660043820145295360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">6 &#8211; Elena Rybakina is the 6th player since the introduction of the WTA-1000 format in 2009 to secure a Grand Slam or WTA-1000 title in each surface after S. Williams, Kvitova, Halep, Muguruza and Barty. Multitasking.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IBI23?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#IBI23<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InteBNLdItalia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@InteBNLdItalia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WTA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA_insider?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WTA_insider<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lPRC7UDOQ6\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lPRC7UDOQ6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaAce (@OptaAce) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaAce\/status\/1660043807390302209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, in the only match between them before the final, Kalinina defeated Rybakina 2:1 sets on clay in Charleston in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Rybakina, world number 6, triumphed with the 2023 Rome WTA Masters 1000 after Anhelina Kalinina retired after 1 game in the 2nd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":436353,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17222,19224,18069],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[19482,18333,19225,18071],"acf":{"announce":"Kalinina retired at the beginning of the 2nd set.","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\/436352"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436352"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436352"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}