{"id":961144,"date":"2026-04-23T17:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/?p=961144"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:07:28","slug":"sabalenka-uspjesno-zapocela-odbranu-titule-u-madridu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/sport\/sabalenka-uspjesno-zapocela-odbranu-titule-u-madridu\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabalenka successfully begins title defense in Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In her first match on clay this season, Sabalenka defeated American Peyton Stearns 2:0 \u2013 7:5, 6:3 after an hour and 35 minutes of play. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Far from being the winner of the Laureus Award (Sportswoman of the Year for 2025) she excelled today, but in the end she still finished the job in two sets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two sets were almost mirrored. Sterns had a break advantage in both and led 2:1, but Arina came back. In the first, she reached the set with a break in the 12th game, in the second at 4:3, when she broke her rival's serve, saved two tied break points and then converted the second match point to advance to the next round. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Back winning in Madrid \ud83d\udc2f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SabalenkaA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@SabalenkaA<\/a> defeats Stearns 7-5, 6-3 to start her Clay Court Swing!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MMOPEN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MMOPEN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x9dCnIOWIZ\">pic.twitter.com\/x9dCnIOWIZ<\/a><\/p>\u2014 wta (@WTA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA\/status\/2047330735707636123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 23, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There she will play against Romanian Jacqueline Cristian, who after a comeback in three sets defeated Ukrainian Yulia Starodubtseva. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World number one Arina Sabalenka successfully began her title defense at the Madrid Masters. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":930514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[1850,31309,31310],"naslovna":[],"class_list":["post-961144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-arina-sabalenka","tag-pejton-sterns","tag-wta-madrid"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961146,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961144\/revisions\/961146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961144"},{"taxonomy":"naslovna","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naslovna?post=961144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}