{"id":32545,"date":"2025-11-07T14:05:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=32545"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:05:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:05:40","slug":"wta-finals-tennis-jessica-pegula-v-elena-rybakina-in-semi-finals-live-wta-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=32545","title":{"rendered":"WTA Finals tennis: Jessica Pegula v Elena Rybakina in semi-finals \u2013 live | WTA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><span class=\"dcr-90inr0\"><span id=\"key-events-carousel-mobile\"\/><span class=\"dcr-90inr0\"><\/p>\n<p>Key events<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span id=\"filter-toggle-mobile\"\/>Show key events only<\/p>\n<p><span>Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"dcr-1wl2b6o\">Preamble<\/h2>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">There will be a new name on the WTA Finals trophy this year: none of the four players still standing have won this title before. The favourite, world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka, lost her only final appearance, to Caroline Garcia in 2022. She faces Amanda Anisimova in the second semi-final, which promises to be a power-hitting masterclass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Before that, surprise front-runner Elena Rybakina takes on Jessica Pegula for a place in the final. Having dipped out of the world\u2019s top 10 in the summer, Rybakina rediscovered her form in the year\u2019s Asian swing and has defied a poor prior record in this event, winning all three round-robin games to qualify for her first semi-final spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">As for Pegula, she reached the final in 2023, only to lose 6-1, 6-0 to Iga Swiatek. Despite losing a tight contest against Sabalenka, she made it through to the last four by beating Coco Gauff and Jasmine Paolini. The American starts as underdog today but has a 3-1 advantage in the two players\u2019 head-to-head record.<\/p>\n<p>Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Preamble There will be a new name on the WTA Finals trophy this year: none of the four players still standing have won this title before. The favourite, world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka, lost her only final appearance, to Caroline Garcia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[18663,410,2115,132,11477,11094,11615,1262,18470],"class_list":{"0":"post-32545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-elena","9":"tag-finals","10":"tag-jessica","11":"tag-live","12":"tag-pegula","13":"tag-rybakina","14":"tag-semifinals","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}