Elena Rybakina – Ekaterina Alexandrova Live – WTA Finals: Tennis Scores & Highlights – 05/11/2025

RYBAKINA MARCHES ON INTO THE SEMI-FINALS IN WTA FINALS

Rybakina has been a force to be reckoned with in Riyadh, coming through the round-robin stage of the WTA Finals with three wins from three.

Having started with a straight sets demolition of Amanda Anisimova, Rybakina was forced to work harder to beat world No. 2 Iga Swiatek.

Today, her opponent changed last minute but even that could not de-rail her progress, Rybakina beating Alexandrova 6-4 6-4 in an hour and 13 minutes.

Alexandrova came in as second alternate, after Mirra Andreeva opted not to sign in following Madison Keys’ withdrawal.

Alexandrova gave a good account of herself from word go, comfortably holding her first four games and troubling Rybakina on her serve. But one loose game in the first set was all it took for Rybakina to pounce and take the set 6-4, despite some shoulder tape indicating a possible injury that could be worrying moving forward.

Rybakina was up two breaks in the second set, but lost her service game for the first time in the match when serving for it, but she made no such mistakes the second time around, her first serve doing the damage when it mattered.

She will feature in Thursday’s semi-finals, but does not yet know the identity of her opponent – that will be revealed when the other group concludes tomorrow.

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