{"id":439646,"date":"2023-07-13T03:32:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T07:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=439646"},"modified":"2023-07-13T03:32:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T07:32:32","slug":"sabalenka-through-to-1-2-finals-after-comfortable-victory","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/sabalenka-through-to-1-2-finals-after-comfortable-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabalenka through to 1\/2 finals after comfortable victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aryna Sabalenka emerged victorious in her 1\/4 final Wimbledon clash against Madison Keys 6-2, 6-4 to reach the semi-finals of a Grand Slam for a fourth consecutive time.<\/p>\n<p>The number two seed swooped past her opponent in the first set in no time, but trailed 4-2 in the second.<\/p>\n<p>However, that didn&#8217;t seem to bother her as she broke Keys&#8217; serve twice and won all the remaining games in the set.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DOMINANT ARYNA! \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>Aryna Sabalenka moves to 17-1 at majors this season with a straight-sets win over Keys!<\/p>\n<p>The World No. 2 advances to her second <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Wimbledon<\/a> Semifinal. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gKS1LE547c\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gKS1LE547c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis Channel (@TennisChannel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisChannel\/status\/1679122207866490880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old will face either defending champion Elena Rybakina or 2022 runner-up Ons Jabeur. If she successfully reaches the final, then the Belarusian will replace Iga Swiatek as world No.1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t wait to play my second semi-final and hopefully I can do better,&#8221; she said in her on-court interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since that semi-final I changed a lot. I did a lot of work and think I am a different player now.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aryna Sabalenka emerged victorious in her 1\/4 final Wimbledon clash against Madison Keys 6-2, 6-4 to reach the semi-finals of a Grand Slam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":439648,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17471,17725,17072],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"video":[],"announce":"The Belarusian powered through her 4th straight Grand Slam semi"},"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\/439646"}],"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=439646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439646"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439646"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}