Rybakina reaches the final in Ningbo
Elena Rybakina beat Jasmine Paolini 6-3, 6-2 on Saturday night and will play the winner of the match between No 7 seed Diana Shnaider and No 4 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova for the title
Elena Rybakina, Wuhan 2025 – © Imago / Psnewz
Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 3 seed, won against Italian Jasmine Paolini, the second seed, 6-3, 6-2 to advance to the final of the Ningbo Open at the Yinzhou Tennis Center on Saturday morning.
Rybakina, ranked No 9, will play the winner of the match between No 7 seed Diana Shnaider and No 4 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova next.
The Kazakh beat Australian qualifier Ajla Tomljanovic (6-2, 6-0) and Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska (6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3) in the previous rounds of the Ningbo tournament.
Earlier in the tournament, Paolini, ranked No 8, won against Swiss Belinda Bencic, the No 6 seed (5-7, 7-5, 6-3) and Russian Veronika Kudermetova (6-2, 7-5).
Ningbo WTA 500, other semi-final result (Yinzhou Tennis Center, hard, USD 1.064.510):
- Diana Shnaider vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
