Athletistic / Tennis. In the last women’s singles match of the WTA-1000 tournament in Indian Wells (USA), the representative of Kazakhstan Elena Rybakina and the representative of Belarus Arina Sobolenko will meet
SPORT.RU invites you to a direct online text broadcast of this meeting:
Tennis. Indian goods. The final. Rybakina – Sobolenko. Direct
At the end of the evening on Sunday March 19, the women’s final will take place at the WTA-1000 tournament in Indian Wells (California, USA). The main trophy of the prestigious Californian tournament will be disputed by the representative of Kazakhstan Elena Rybakina and the representative of Belarus Arina Sobolenko. Interestingly, the tennis players will meet this season for the second time, and again in the final.
Elena Rybakina was born and lives in Moscow, but since 2018 the tennis player represents Kazakhstan. Last season, Rybakina achieved the biggest success of her career so far, winning Wimbledon 2022. Already this year, Elena reached the final of another Slam, in Australia, but after taking the lead in sets, she still lost the championship match to … Arina Sobolenko. Currently, 23-year-old Rybakina has three singles titles. In addition to Wimbledon, these are also Hobart (2020) and Bucharest (2019).
It should be noted that during the campaign for this tournament, Elena was able to outperform several tennis players at once, who repeatedly appeared in the top 5 of the world rankings. They are the American Sofia Kenin, as well as the Spaniard Paula Badosa. And in the semifinals, Rybakina confidently dominated the first racket in the world – Pole Iga Shventek (6: 2, 6: 2), and for the second time this season. In the WTA ranking, the representative of Kazakhstan now occupies the 8th line, which is the best achievement in the career of a tennis player. In case of victory, Rybakina will become the 7th racket in the world
Arina Sobolenko is currently the second racket in the world. The gap with Iga Swiatek is of course significant, but if she wins today, the representative of Belarus will significantly strengthen her current position as second in the world. Sobolenko, 24, has already won two titles this season, both in Australia. And one of them is the Grand Slam victory, Arina’s long-awaited success! In total, Belarus’ first racket has 12 singles titles. Sobolenko confirmed her current excellent form at Indian Wells with victories over the best tennis players: American Corey Gauff in the quarter-finals (6:4, 6:0) and Greece’s Maria Sakkari in the semi-finals of the tournament ( 6:2, 6:3).
Between them, Rybakina and Sobolenko met four times at the official level. Either way, Arina won, including in the recent Australian Open final (4:6, 6:3, 6:4). Note that all fights between Elena and Arina were three sets.
Tennis. Indian goods. The final. Rybakina – Sobolenko. Direct
The online text broadcast of this match will begin on SPORT.RU 1March 9 at 11:10 p.m. Moscow time
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