{"id":53799,"date":"2026-08-20T01:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T01:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/53799\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T01:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T01:23:11","slug":"cincinnati-open-2026-aryna-sabalenka-sweeps-wang-xinyu-to-reach-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/53799\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Open 2026: Aryna Sabalenka Sweeps Wang Xinyu to Reach Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wang Xinyu had no answers for Aryna Sabalenka at the 2026 Cincinnati Open on Tuesday. The world No. 1 raced through their Round of 32 meeting 6-1, 6-3 in just 54 minutes to book her spot in the <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/coco-gauff-vs-ann-li-2026-cincinnati-open-wta-scores\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/coco-gauff-vs-ann-li-2026-cincinnati-open-wta-scores\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Round of 16<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Aryna Sabalenka Controls 3rd Round Match with Wang Xinyu<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The WTA 1000 tournament&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/wta-cincinnati-open-matchups-sabalenka-osaka-gauff-draw-2026\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/wta-cincinnati-open-matchups-sabalenka-osaka-gauff-draw-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">top seed<\/a> set the tone early at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio, holding Wang to a single game in the opener. From there, Sabalenka absorbed her opponent&#8217;s defensive lobs and countered with heavy groundstrokes. She never faced a break point all match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wang raised her game and tightened her baseline play to start the second set. But Sabalenka steadied after an early dip. From the seventh game on, the <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/isu-bans-russian-belarusian-athletes-from-competition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"8382\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Belarusian<\/a> pulled away to easily close out the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/ce97ln7kp01o\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/ce97ln7kp01o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">final match stats<\/a> told the full story. Sabalenka converted 4 of her 7 break-point chances and won 53 of 83 total points overall. She added multiple aces and return winners without ever dropping serve.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka Meets Bejlek in Next Round of 2026 Cincinnati Open<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next up, Sabalenka faces Czech star Sara Bejlek in the Round of 16, after Bejlek rallied past <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/mirra-andreeva-bad-homburg-open-2026-wta-scores\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"35803\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ekaterina Alexandrova<\/a> 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wang Xinyu had no answers for Aryna Sabalenka at the 2026 Cincinnati Open on Tuesday. The world No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[18013,217,3319,1895],"class_list":["post-53799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-aryna-sabalenka","tag-2026-cincinnati-open","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-wang-xinyu","tag-wta-1000"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}