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Kvitova snaps Rybakina's streak to win Miami; 30th career title (WTA Tennis)

Petra Kvitova ended Elena Rybakina's 13-match win streak to win win the Miami Open and return to the Top 10. It was Kvitova's ninth career WTA 1000-level ...

She closed out a love hold with her fifth ace of the match to lead 5-2 and broke Rybakina in the final game to close out the win in 1 hour and 42 minutes. Stat of the match: Kvitova won 78 percent of her service points (52 of 67) and finished with 29 winners to 14 unforced errors. With the momentum on her side, Kvitova raced out to a 3-0 lead in the second set. She was 6-2 in tiebreaks this season and serving well over 70 percent in the first set. Rybakina responded by converting her first break point of the set at 5-4, 30-40, powering down a deep return that earned an errant reply. Her win against No.7 Rybakina was the 60th Top 10 win of her career, behind only Venus Williams and Victoria Azarenka among active players.

Kvitova upsets Rybakina to win first Miami Open title (Reuters)

Petra Kvitova upset Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina 7-6(14) 6-2 on Saturday to win her first Miami Open crown and ninth WTA 1000 title.

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Petra Kvitova shocks Elena Rybakina to win Miami Open final in ... (The Guardian)

Petra Kvitova defeated Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina 7-6 (14), 6-2, with the first set key and Kvitova said: 'I had to be a little bit more aggressive'

But even as her peers have retired, Kvitova’s reputation as one of the most dangerous and unpredictable players in the world endures. I had to be a little bit more aggressive, which I had been in the end, but during the tiebreak I struggled.” Kvitova has long exemplified the ethos of uncompromising big hitting and her comfort in the match-up against Rybakina, another of the biggest shotmakers in the world, was immediately clear. They converged in a marathon 20-minute tiebreak, the momentum constantly swinging as Kvitova saved five set points before converting her fifth. After ample struggles in this autumn of her career, including falling out of the top 30 last season, as many questioned whether she would keep playing for much longer, Miami marks the 33-year-old’s first WTA 1000 title since 2018 and ninth overall. In her 12 previous Miami Open appearances, she had never passed the quarter-finals.

Petra Kvitova upsets Elena Rybakina for women's Miami Open title (ESPN)

Twelfth-seeded Petra Kvitova won the Miami Open in her 13th appearance, beating seventh-seeded Elena Rybakina with a marathon tiebreaker in a 7-6 (14), ...

I think that in the second I just didn't stay disciplined and was a bit rushing.'' I won the tiebreaker so emotionally I was on the better side. "Maybe if the first set had gone my way it would've been different,'' Rybakina said. "The tiebreaker - oh, by God - was the longest in my career. Rybakina, who had 12 aces total for the match, finished the tournament with 69 for the tournament. "The tiebreaker was going to decide the whole match,'' Kvitova said. Sinner, the 10th seed from Italy, is 0-5 against Medvedev and coming off a physical, three-set, three-hour war with Alcaraz that ended late Friday night. Rybakina, who won at Indian Wells, admitted to fatigue after the tiebreaker from the travel. Rybakina finished with 10 aces for the first set while setting the record for most aces in a WTA Tournament, smashing Madison Keys' mark. A past Wimbledon champion, the 6-foot Kvitova won the first-set epic tiebreaker 16-14 on her fifth set point. She was broken just once in the match. Rybakina, the reigning Wimbledon champion, is from Moscow but represents Kazakhstan.

Veteran Kvitova defeats Rybakina for 30th WTA title (Yahoo Sports)