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), 6-2 victory on Saturday.
The 33-year-old Kvitova, 10 years older than her opponent, snapped Rybakina바카라s 13-match winning streak and halted her bid to win the Sunshine Double (Indian Wells and Miami Open).
In winning with will, stalwart defense and one sensational forehand winner on the dead run that electrified the crowd in the second set, the lefty Kvitova captured her 30th WTA singles title and first one since 2018 in Madrid.
After Rybakina hit a forehand long on match point, Kvitova raised her arms and put her hands to her head. She was broken just once in the match. It was her 41st career WTA Finals appearance but first final in Miami. She also will vault into the Top 10.
바카라I take it as a positive I can still play with the best,바카라 said Kvitova who earned a $1.26 million first prize. 바카라I take pride, even at my age, I could win big tournaments.바카라바카라 Kvitova, who is from the Czech Republic, disagreed with the announcement Wimbledon would accept Russian players this year. Rybakina, the reigning Wimbledon champion, is from Moscow but represents Kazakhstan.
A past Wimbledon champion, the 6-foot Kvitova won the first-set epic tiebreaker 16-14 on her fifth set point. A suddenly shaky Rybakina hit a forehand long to end the 22-minute tiebreaker; she had been undefeated at 7-0 in tiebreakers in 2023.
바카라The tiebreaker was going to decide the whole match,바카라 Kvitova said. 바카라The tiebreaker 바카라 oh, by God 바카라 was the longest in my career. I won the tiebreaker so emotionally I was on the better side. You could see the balls after the tiebreak. They were big fluffy balls.바카라
Rybakina, who won at Indian Wells, admitted to fatigue after the tiebreaker from the travel. The women바카라s tour will shortly head to Europe for the claycourt season.
바카라The second set I think overall it was not easy after the first set,바카라 Rybakina said. 바카라I think the second she was also more free to hit, to maybe risk a bit more. I think that in the second I just didn바카라t stay disciplined and was a bit rushing.바카라바카라
The set lasted 66 minutes during which each player held serve until 4-4 then exchanged service breaks. Rybakina finished with 10 aces for the first set while setting the record for most aces in a WTA Tournament, smashing Madison Keys바카라 mark. Rybakina, who had 12 aces total for the match, finished the tournament with 69 for the tournament.
Kvitova broke Rybakina in second game of the second set with a backhand winner on the service return to go up 2-0 and the streak was soon over for Rybakina.
바카라Maybe if the first set had gone my way it would바카라ve been different,바카라 Rybakina said. 바카라Because I was physically tired and that바카라s why I didn바카라t have discipline.
The men바카라s singles final is on Sunday and pits Jannik Sinner, coming off his semifinal upset of defending Miami Open champion Carlos Alcaraz, against Daniil Medvedev.
Medvedev has won 23 of 24 matches and beat Sinner in the Finals last month in Rotterdam. 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.
In the men바카라s doubles final, Santiago Gonzalez and Edouard Roger-Vasselin beat Austin Krajicek and Nicolas Mahut 7-6 (4), 7-5.
