{"id":1977,"date":"2025-06-21T09:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T09:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1977\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T09:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T09:32:08","slug":"sabalenka-pulls-off-crazy-comeback-to-defeat-rybakina-at-berlin-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1977\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabalenka pulls off &#8216;crazy comeback&#8217; to defeat Rybakina at Berlin Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (AP) \u2014 Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka staged a \u201ccrazy comeback,&#8221; saving four match points before beating Elena Rybakina 7-6 (6), 3-6, 7-6 (6) in the quarterfinals of the Berlin Open on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka was 6-2 down in the final-set tie-breaker but won six straight points to reach her eighth semifinal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElena is a great player and we\u2019ve had a lot of tough battles,&#8221; Sabalenka said. &#8220;I have no idea how I was able to win those last points. I think I just got lucky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember a long time ago when I was just starting, I won a lot of matches being down match points, and not so long ago I was thinking that it\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve made a crazy comeback, and here I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka next faces Marketa Vondrousova, who defeated Ons Jabeur 6-4, 6-1. Liudmila Samsonova also went through with a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Amanda Anisimova.<\/p>\n<p>Samsonova will next meet Wang Xinyu after her opponent, Paula Badosa, was forced to withdraw due to a right hip injury after losing the first set 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>More AP tennis: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (AP) \u2014 Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka staged a \u201ccrazy comeback,&#8221; saving four match points before beating Elena Rybakina&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2477,2768,2766,2479,2767,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-1977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-aryna-sabalenka","9":"tag-berlin-open","10":"tag-elena-rybakina","11":"tag-liudmila-samsonova","12":"tag-match-points","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114720666024610550","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}