{"id":20592,"date":"2024-02-17T20:56:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T01:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/top-ranked-iga-swiatek-wins-her-third-straight-qatar-open\/17\/02\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-02-17T20:56:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T01:56:47","slug":"top-ranked-iga-swiatek-wins-her-third-straight-qatar-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/top-ranked-iga-swiatek-wins-her-third-straight-qatar-open\/17\/02\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Top-ranked Iga Swiatek wins her third straight Qatar Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>DOHA, Qatar &#8212; No. 1-ranked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Iga Swiatek<\/a> won the Qatar Open for a third straight year on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek defeated No. 4 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Elena Rybakina<\/a> 7-6 (8), 6-2 in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina led 4-1 in the first set but cut her leg in her serving motion and needed medical attention. Swiatek rallied to 4-4. Rybakina broke again for 6-5 and a chance to serve out the set but Swiatek broke back.<\/p>\n<p>In the tiebreaker, the defending champion missed three set points as the score reached 8-8. But then Swiatek hit a backhand winner and snatched the set with a backhand passing shot.<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek&#8217;s 18th career singles title was her first of the year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Serena Williams<\/a> was the last woman to win a WTA event three successive times, in 2015 at the Miami Open.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/39545964\/top-ranked-iga-swiatek-wins-third-straight-qatar-open\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOHA, Qatar &mdash; No. 1-ranked Iga Swiatek won the Qatar Open for a third straight year on Saturday. Swiatek defeated No. 4<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/top-ranked-iga-swiatek-wins-her-third-straight-qatar-open\/17\/02\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[1061,725,1226,2020,1062,5056,508],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20594,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20592\/revisions\/20594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}