Defending champion Aryna Sabalenka was eliminated from the Cincinnati Open after a 6-1, 6-4 defeat to Elena Rybakina in the quarterfinals.

Twice down break point while two games from victory against world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, Elena Rybakina stepped up to serve. She had let victory slip through her fingers against Sabalenka two months earlier in Berlin, squandering four consecutive match points in a third-set tiebreak. She had suffered close losses from winning positions all year.

Following her quarterfinal loss to Elena Rybakina at the Cincinnati Open 2025, Aryna Sabalenka departed for New York with her boyfriend, Georgios Frangulis, on a private jet. Despite the defeat, she earned $106,

Look, we’ve all been there – you make plans with someone, they get hurt, and suddenly everyone else wants to step in as the replacement. But Aryna Sabalenka?

Emma Raducanu was knocked out of the Cincinnati Open after a battling performance saw her slip to a narrow third-round defeat against world number one Aryna Sabalenka. Monday's match was the pair's second meeting of the year after Sabalenka edged to victory in their third-round encounter at Wimbledon.

Rennae Stubbs had a hard time understanding some of the errors made by Sabalenka in the Emma Raducanu match in Cincinnati.

With her coaching team intact again, Rybakina played the match of her season, and put herself back in the big-title conversation.

Aryna Sabalenka speaks on her controversial comments following Coco Gauff's French Open win over her her in June.

Ninth-seeded Elena Rybakina delivered 11 aces and dominated the match while recording a 6-1, 6-4 victory over top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka on Friday afternoon to reach the semifinals of the Cincinnati Open.

Aryna Sabalenka became the second player to cause a stir with their choice of water bottle at the Cincinnati Open. Earlier this week, Carlos Alcaraz got into an argument with chair umpire Greg Allensworth when he was told off for drinking from reusable Evian bottles, repeatedly telling the official: “It’s not my fault.”