{"id":39595,"date":"2024-12-28T02:43:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T23:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=39595"},"modified":"2024-12-28T02:43:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T23:43:03","slug":"united-cup-tennis-rybakina-leads-kazakhstan-to-victory-over-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/28\/united-cup-tennis-rybakina-leads-kazakhstan-to-victory-over-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"United Cup Tennis: Rybakina Leads Kazakhstan to Victory Over Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Elena Rybakina led Kazakhstan to a 2-1 victory over Spain at the United Cup in Perth on Friday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Rybakina, ranked sixth and making her debut in the United Cup, defeated Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 6-2, 6-3 in the singles match before teaming up with Alexander Shevchenko to clinch the decisive mixed doubles match.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Kazakhstan could advance to the quarterfinals of the 18-team mixed-gender tournament if they beat Greece in their second Group C match on Monday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Pablo Carre\u00f1o Busta had earlier given Spain the lead by defeating Shevchenko 6-2, 6-1 in less than an hour. However, Rybakina\u2019s victory in singles brought Kazakhstan back on level terms.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Rybakina dominated with strong baseline shots, taking a 4-0 lead before Bouzas Maneiro fought back to win two games. Rybakina quickly regained control, breaking serve without dropping a point to claim the opening set.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The 25-year-old extended her lead in the second set with powerful backhands, sealing the victory with her aggressive play.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">After her singles win, Rybakina returned to the court with Shevchenko to defeat Bouzas Maneiro and Carre\u00f1o Busta 7-6, 6-7, 10-7 in the mixed doubles match.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Shevchenko praised his partner: &#8220;If it wasn\u2019t for Rybakina, we would have lost. The win is all thanks to her.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Rybakina led Kazakhstan to a 2-1 victory over Spain at the United Cup in Perth on Friday. Rybakina, ranked sixth and making her debut in the United Cup, defeated Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 6-2, 6-3 in the singles match before teaming up with Alexander Shevchenko to clinch the decisive mixed doubles match. Kazakhstan could advance &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39596,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39595\/revisions\/39596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}