{"id":3674,"date":"2025-06-20T14:55:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T09:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=3674"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:56:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T09:56:54","slug":"sabalenka-advances-in-berlin-as-qualifier-wang-stuns-gauff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/06\/20\/sabalenka-advances-in-berlin-as-qualifier-wang-stuns-gauff","title":{"rendered":"Sabalenka Advances in Berlin as Qualifier Wang Stuns Gauff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong>ISLAMABAD: Aryna Sabalenka battled through challenging conditions to reach the Berlin Open quarter-finals, while French Open champion Coco Gauff suffered a shock exit at the hands of Chinese qualifier Wang Xinyu in a dramatic day of WTA action.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">The Belarusian star completed a suspended match against Rebeka Masarova, while Wang&#8217;s impressive victory sent ripples through the Wimbledon warm-up event.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Sabalenka Overcomes Weather Disruption<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">The world number two had led 6-2 when Wednesday&#8217;s match was halted due to slippery court conditions &#8211; a decision Sabalenka vocally disputed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Upon resumption, the Belarusian dropped serve early but rallied from 4-2 down in the second set before clinching a tense tiebreak 7-6(6).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Sabalenka squandered two match points before capitalizing on a Masarova error to set up a blockbuster quarter-final against Elena Rybakina.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Gauff&#8217;s Grass Campaign Stumbles<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Fresh from her Roland Garros triumph, Coco Gauff looked uncomfortable on grass throughout her 6-3, 6-3 loss to world number 42 Wang.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">The American&#8217;s 10 double faults and 28 unforced errors proved costly against the Chinese qualifier&#8217;s consistent baseline game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Wang&#8217;s victory &#8211; her first over a top-5 opponent &#8211; earns her a last-eight clash with Spain&#8217;s Paula Badosa as she continues her dream run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">In other results, Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova survived a three-set battle against Diana Shnaider to set up a tantalizing quarter-final against Ons Jabeur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Aryna Sabalenka battled through challenging conditions to reach the Berlin Open quarter-finals, while French Open champion Coco Gauff suffered a shock exit at the hands of Chinese qualifier Wang Xinyu in a dramatic day of WTA action. The Belarusian star completed a suspended match against Rebeka Masarova, while Wang&#8217;s impressive victory sent ripples through &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1224,1278,1825],"class_list":["post-3674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-comeback","tag-tennis","tag-upset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3676,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions\/3676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}