{"id":11810,"date":"2025-03-13T05:20:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T05:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/indian-wells-2025-results-sonay-kartal-loses-to-aryna-sabalenka-belinda-bencic-stuns-coco-gauff\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T05:20:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T05:20:59","slug":"indian-wells-2025-results-sonay-kartal-loses-to-aryna-sabalenka-belinda-bencic-stuns-coco-gauff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/indian-wells-2025-results-sonay-kartal-loses-to-aryna-sabalenka-belinda-bencic-stuns-coco-gauff\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Wells 2025 results: Sonay Kartal loses to Aryna Sabalenka, Belinda Bencic stuns Coco Gauff"},"content":{"rendered":"


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British lucky loser Sonay Kartal saw her memorable Indian Wells run ended by world number one Aryna Sabalenka.<\/b><\/p>\n

Kartal, 23, was beaten 6-1 6-2 in just over an hour as Sabalenka ruthlessly moved into the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

The scoreline did not do Kartal’s efforts justice, but it did illustrate the quality and power of three-time major champion Sabalenka’s ball-striking.<\/p>\n

“I was in a lot of the games and I think I had her rattled at a few points,” Kartal told BBC Radio 5 Live.<\/p>\n

“I’m disappointed to be out of the tournament but I have made huge strides from this time last year.”<\/p>\n

Kartal, who was ranked outside the world’s top 250 a year ago, has plenty of positives to take from a remarkable week in the Californian desert – where she did not expect to be competing in the main draw.<\/p>\n

The British number three lost in qualifying and had to find new accommodation at the event at short notice after being given a late reprieve.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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British lucky loser Sonay Kartal saw her memorable Indian Wells run ended by world number one Aryna Sabalenka. Kartal, 23, was beaten 6-1 6-2 in just over an hour as Sabalenka ruthlessly moved into the quarter-finals. The scoreline did not do Kartal’s efforts justice, but it did illustrate the quality and power of three-time major […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11812,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810\/revisions\/11812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}