{"id":457913,"date":"2023-09-02T11:42:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T07:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=457913"},"modified":"2023-09-02T11:55:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T07:55:25","slug":"rybakina-out-of-us-open-after-shocking-defeat-vs-sorana-kirstia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rybakina-out-of-us-open-after-shocking-defeat-vs-sorana-kirstia\/","title":{"rendered":"Rybakina out of US Open after shocking defeat vs Sorana Kirstia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The surprises in this year&#8217;s edition of the US Open seem endless as the world No. 4 Elena Rybakina crashed out in the third round of the tournament, losing to Romania&#8217;s Sorana Kirstia 6-3, 6-7(6), 6-4 in a match that lasted 2 hours and 49 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Kirstia, No. 30 in the WTA rankings, qualified for the fourth round of the Grand Slam tournament in New York for the first time in her career.<\/p>\n<p>After trailing 0:1 in the set, Rybakina managed to equalize after a contested second set, but in the third part the Romanian led 4:1. The rivals exchanged two more breaks, and Sorana Kirstya reached the final victory with her first match point.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What a match on Armstrong!<\/p>\n<p>Sorana Cirstea takes out No. 4 seed Elena Rybakina. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fLTjWXHdPp\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/fLTjWXHdPp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 US Open Tennis (@usopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen\/status\/1697820230880288873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the fourth round, she will compete against Belinda Bencic from Switzerland, who eliminated Chinese Lin Zhu 7:6(1), 2:6, 6:3 in two hours and 42 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sorana Cirstea calls Elena Rybakina a sweetheart:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s a great player. She\u2019s #4 in the world for a reason. She\u2019s also a sweetheart. I think she\u2019s wonderful for our tour.\u201d \u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fV5eCrUzgW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/fV5eCrUzgW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1697823068331385227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 2, 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>The surprises in this year&#8217;s edition of the US Open seem endless as the world No. 4 Elena Rybakina crashed out in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":457921,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17222,4051],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[18333,1891],"acf":{"announce":"The world No. 4 crashes out early in New York","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\/457913"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457923,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457913\/revisions\/457923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457913"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=457913"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=457913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}