Rybakina seals year-end No 1 with Tokyo win over Putintseva
Elena Rybakina beat Yulia Putintseva 6-2 6-3 in Tokyo to seal the year-end world number one ranking for 2026. In the Pan Pacific Open quarter-finals she meets Leylah Fernandez, whom she beat 6-2 6-2 in the Ningbo final.
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Elena Rybakina vai terminar 2026 como número um do mundo no simples feminino, depois de vencer Yulia Putintseva por 6-2 e 6-3 nas oitavas de final do Pan Pacific Open, em Tóquio.
O resultado a deixa fora de alcance nas últimas semanas de um ano que já lhe rendeu os títulos de Melbourne e de Nova York. Ela havia conquistado o Ningbo Open na semana passada, seu quarto troféu do ano, e depois de folgar na primeira rodada em Tóquio sacou seis aces e acertou 25 winners contra Putintseva.
A próxima adversária nas quartas de final é Leylah Fernandez, ex-finalista do US Open que perdeu por 6-2 e 6-2 para Rybakina na final de Ningbo.
“Isso significa muito. É algo pelo qual trabalhamos com a equipe”, disse Rybakina sobre o ranking de fim de ano. “São tantos jogadores ótimos e estamos todos muito próximos, e fico feliz que agora, com a semana passada e com a vitória de hoje, eu tenha tornado possível garantir o número um no fim do ano.”
Rybakina, 27 anos, representa o Cazaquistão como Putintseva; ela bateu Aryna Sabalenka nas duas finais de Grand Slam em quadra dura deste ano, em Melbourne e em Nova York, e assumiu o topo em setembro. Sua campanha até as oitavas no US Open, quando venceu Zheng Qinwen, já havia lhe assegurado o número um pela primeira vez.
A temporada não foi tranquila. Um problema no tornozelo esquerdo a fez desistir das quartas de final de Cincinnati contra Iga Swiatek, lesão que ela disse ter a incomodado por um longo período, e ela admitiu antes do US Open que sua preparação “não foi ótima”.
Agora vem a defesa do título no WTA Finals, o torneio de encerramento da temporada em Indian Wells, de 8 a 15 de novembro.
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