Aug 15, 2025; Cincinnati, OH, USA; Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) returns a shot towards Elena Rybakina (KAZ) throughout the Cincinnati Open on the Lindner Household Tennis Middle. Obligatory Credit score: Aaron Doster-Imagn Photos Aryna Sabalenka prolonged her successful streak on the Wuhan Open to 19 matches with a convincing 6-3, 6-2 defeat of Liudmila Samsonova in third-round motion on Thursday.
The highest-seeded Belarusian recorded six aces on the WTA 1000 match to dispatch the Sixteenth-seeded Russian in 75 minutes.
Sabalenka gained the title at Wuhan in 2018, 2019 and 2024. Her 19-0 report within the match marks the longest such streak at any occasion since Caroline Wozniacki gained her first 20 matches at New Haven with three titles between 2008 and 2012.
Sabalenka superior to the quarterfinals towards eighth-seeded Elena Rybakina of Ukraine, who breezed to a 6-3, 6-4 win over Linda Noskova of the Czech Republic.
Additionally on Thursday, sixth-seeded Jessica Pegula performed in her sixth straight three-set match and earned a 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 win over ninth-seeded Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova.
Pegula gained 4 of her final 5 video games to enhance to 5-1 in her final six matches.
“I can not bear in mind the final time I performed two units,” Pegula stated. “However I have been competing actually arduous, and I have been taking part in a variety of actually good gamers. It was totally different circumstances at the moment with the roof closed, and I believe it took us a short while to get adjusted.”
Second-seeded Iga Swiatek of Poland collected eight aces and transformed 4 of six break factors in a 7-6 (2), 6-4 win over No. 13 Belinda Bencic of Switzerland.
“For positive I needed to play with confidence and make nice selections and never let her dictate,” Swiatek stated. “It was tremendous arduous and each recreation was robust. That is why it was two units in over two hours. I am comfortable that I used to be there within the deciding moments to be stable and play yet another shot.”
Swiatek superior to face seventh-seeded Italian Jasmine Paolini, who overcame gradual begin to defeat Denmark’s Clara Tauson. Paolini was main 3-6, 6-1, 3-1 when Tauson retired because of harm.
Additionally on Thursday, third-seeded Coco Gauff had three aces and overcame six double faults to dispatch China’s Shuai Zhang, 6-3, 6-2 in a swift 60 minutes.
“It was a bit bit up and down,” acknowledged Gauff, who has solely dropped six video games by two matches. “However comfortable to be into the subsequent spherical.”
–Area Stage Media
