{"id":455025,"date":"2023-08-14T00:04:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T20:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455025"},"modified":"2023-08-14T00:04:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T20:04:19","slug":"samsonova-beats-rybakina-to-reach-the-final-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/samsonova-beats-rybakina-to-reach-the-final-in-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsonova beats Rybakina to reach the final in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liudmila Samsonova, world number 18, won against world number 4, Elena Rybakina, 2-1 sets, and will play for the title at the tournament in Canada.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Liudmila Samsonova comes back from a set down against Elena Rybakina to earn her spot in the Canadian Open final! \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6<\/p>\n<p>Next up: Jessica Pegula for the \ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Dow3E6gNo\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0Dow3E6gNo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eurosport (@eurosport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurosport\/status\/1690810322708234240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Russian secured her place in the match for the trophy after a comeback victory against Rybakina &#8211; 1:6 6:1 6:2. To reach the final, Samsonova also eliminated Sabalenka and Bencic, and later today will have the chance to win the title in Montreal against world number 3 \u2013 Jessica Pegula.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">2 &#8211; Liudmila Samsonova has defeated two top-5 opponents at the Canadian Open 2023 (Aryna Sabalenka #2 and Elena Rybakina #4) &#8211; more than in entire career prior to this tournament (one). Collecting.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OBN23?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#OBN23<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBO23?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NBO23<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OBNmontreal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@OBNmontreal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA_insider?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WTA_insider<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WTA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HJS7q1ppKc\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/HJS7q1ppKc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaAce (@OptaAce) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaAce\/status\/1690806592638230528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Liudmila played awfully in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set, and Elena triumphed, giving her only 1 game. However, in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set, everything changed, and until the end of the semifinal, Samsonova dominated as she broke her opponent\u2019s serve twice in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set and twice in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set to secure the victory and to play a historic first final in a WTA 1000 tournament in her career.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Liudmila Samsonova on beating Elena Rybakina to reach her first Masters final:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the beginning of the year, I said it would be a dream if I could make a final or even win a Masters one day.\u201d \ud83e\udd79 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JDZ1Osh2rm\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/JDZ1Osh2rm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1690809177734844416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liudmila Samsonova, world number 18, won against world number 4, Elena Rybakina, 2-1 sets, and will play for the title at the tournament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":455026,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17222,17460,18069,16764],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[18333,20910,18071,3160],"acf":{"announce":"Liudmila will play her 1st WTA 1000 final.","video":["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\/455025"}],"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=455025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455025"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455025"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}