{"id":72789,"date":"2026-08-12T09:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/72789\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:11:11","slug":"rybakina-shows-champions-grit-in-comeback-win-over-osaka-tennis-supersport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/72789\/","title":{"rendered":"Rybakina shows champion&#8217;s grit in comeback win over Osaka | tennis | SuperSport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Rybakina spent much of Tuesday night with her back against the wall in her Toronto quarterfinal against Naomi Osaka<\/p>\n<p>She was broken in the opening game, dropped the first set, fell behind by a break not once but twice in the second and stood two points away from defeat in the tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hard Fought &amp; Well Deserved \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>Elena Rybakina defeats Osaka to advance to the semifinals in Toronto.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/NBO26?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#NBO26<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sSVVeaFvea\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/sSVVeaFvea<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 wta (@WTA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WTA\/status\/2087362098086948944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the World No 2 did what she has done all tournament. She fought. Rybakina clawed out of every deficit, dug even deeper to save four break points at 3-2 in the decider and stormed all the way back for a 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4 victory in 2 hours and 33 minutes to emphatically punch her ticket to the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>for what is set to be just their second WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz meeting. But in the fleeting hours of Tuesday night, all that mattered was the resolve Rybakina showed in her first-ever battle with Osaka.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was just trying to fight,&#8221; Rybakina said in her on-court interview. &#8220;The first game of the match was really tough because it cost me the set, and then in the second I was just trying to stay closer to the score, even if I&#8217;m losing. And yeah, just fight, and I&#8217;m super happy that I won this match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/news\/4557966\/rybakina-shows-champions-grit-in-comeback-win-over-osaka-to-reach-toronto-semis\" target=\"_blank\">&gt; &gt; &gt; COURTESY OF WTA OFFICIAL SITE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina spent much of Tuesday night with her back against the wall in her Toronto quarterfinal against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[185,8,173,85,1257,8904],"class_list":["post-72789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-osaka","tag-article","tag-japan","tag-news","tag-osaka","tag-tennis","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}