{"id":25811,"date":"2026-02-13T19:49:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T19:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/iga-swiatek-and-elena-rybakina-beaten-in-qatar-open-quarter-finals\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T19:49:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T19:49:38","slug":"iga-swiatek-and-elena-rybakina-beaten-in-qatar-open-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/iga-swiatek-and-elena-rybakina-beaten-in-qatar-open-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek and Elena Rybakina beaten in Qatar Open quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Unseeded Sakkari was lost for words after her 2-6 6-4 7-5 triumph over top seed Swiatek. <\/p>\n

Having reached a career-high of world number three four years ago, Sakkari has since fallen to number 52 and is without a tournament win since March 2024. <\/p>\n

But after a nervous opening set Sakkari recovered to book her place in the last four.<\/p>\n

“I’m speechless because it’s been a while since I had a big win like today,” she said.<\/p>\n

“When you drop in the rankings and you’re not playing good tennis, you start doubting yourself. <\/p>\n

“You’re thinking that you’re never going to beat those players again.”<\/p>\n

The Greek will take on Czech Karolina Muchova in the other semi-final, after the 14th seed swept past Russia’s Anna Kalinskaya 6-3 6-4.<\/p>\n

Latvian Ostapenko beat another unseeded player, Elisabetta Cocciaretto of Italy, 7-5 6-4, in her quarter-final.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Unseeded Sakkari was lost for words after her 2-6 6-4 7-5 triumph over top seed Swiatek. Having reached a career-high of world number three four years ago, Sakkari has since fallen to number 52 and is without a tournament win since March 2024. But after a nervous opening set Sakkari recovered to book her place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25811","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\/25811","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=25811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25813,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25811\/revisions\/25813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}