{"id":167375,"date":"2026-08-14T00:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/167375\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T00:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:53:12","slug":"swiatek-beats-rybakina-in-toronto-for-her-first-wta-tour-title-of-the-year-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/167375\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiatek beats Rybakina in Toronto for her first WTA Tour title of the year :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Seventh-seeded Iga Swiatek beat second-seeded Elena Rybakina 6-2, 6-3 on Thursday in the National Bank Open for her first WTA Tour title of the year and 26th overall.<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek. from Poland, broke Rybakina\u2019s serve early in the match and went on to take the opening set in 29 minutes. Swiatek had another break at 2-2 in the second set before closing out the win in a tidy 75 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The hard-serving Rybakina \u2014 who leads the tour in aces \u2014 struggled to find her rhythm. Swiatek kept her on her heels with a consistent attack, few errors and excellent range on court.<\/p>\n<p>A six-time Grand Slam champion, Swiatek is projected to move up two spots to sixth in the new world ranking. Rybakina will remain No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Katerina Siniakova and Shuai Zhang beat Sara Errani and Nicole Melichar-Martinez 6-3, 6-4 in the doubles final.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Seventh-seeded Iga Swiatek beat second-seeded Elena Rybakina 6-2, 6-3 on Thursday in the National Bank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[7013,1111,48],"class_list":["post-167375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ap-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}