{"id":458243,"date":"2023-09-05T10:37:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T06:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458243"},"modified":"2023-09-05T10:37:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T06:37:44","slug":"sabalenka-advances-to-us-open-1-4-finals-with-clinical-display","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/sabalenka-advances-to-us-open-1-4-finals-with-clinical-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabalenka advances to US Open 1\/4 finals with clinical display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aryna Sabalenka cruised past No.13 seed Daria Kasatkina in straight sets 6-1, 6-3 to advance to the 1\/4 finals of the US Open on Monday night.<br \/>\nIt was Sabalenka&#8217;s first match since she was assured of becoming the new world No.1, following Iga Swiatek&#8217;s shock exit to Jelena Ostapenko and the Belarusian was on fire all throughout.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Absolute domination!<\/p>\n<p>After learning she will be the new World No. 1, Aryna Sabalenka puts on a clinic to reach the Quarterfinals!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#USOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UxngfFFiPd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/UxngfFFiPd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis Channel (@TennisChannel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisChannel\/status\/1698856486498410811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>An effortless display from the 25-year-old saw her dominate her opponent in Arthur Ashe Stadium to secure a place in the last 8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll this year, I\u2019ve been pushing myself so hard to reach this goal,\u201d Sabalenka reflected on getting to No. 1. \u201cIt really means a lot for me. It means a lot for my family. It\u2019s crazy. It\u2019s unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only Swiatek&#8217;s absence, but the simoltenious exits from the No.3 and No.5 Jessica Pegula and Ons Jabeur, along with Rybakina&#8217;s elimination last week, has made Sabalenka red-hot favorite for the title.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Open winner will face No.23 Zheng Qinwen for a place in the semi-final i the quest of conquering her second Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aryna Sabalenka cruised past No.13 seed Daria Kasatkina in straight sets 6-1, 6-3 to advance to the 1\/4 finals of the US Open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":458244,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17471,17385,4051],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[18334,21240,1891],"acf":{"announce":"The new world No.1 was merciless in her 4th round outing","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\/458243"}],"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=458243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458245,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458243\/revisions\/458245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458243"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458243"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}