Rybakina secures another win at Australian Open-2025 despite medical timeouts

World No 7 Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan held her third round match at the Australian Open 2025, Kazinform News Agency reports citing Sports.kz.

Rybakina secures another win at Australian Open-2025 despite medical timeouts
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Rybakina faced Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska (World No 33)

During the 1st set, Rybakina took a medical timeout due to lower back pain, but then returned to the court, confidently winning the game - 6:3.

Prior to the second set, Rybakina needed medical help again. Nevertheless, the game continued, and ended 6:4 in favor of the Kazakh athlete.

Throughout the match, Rybakina hit two aces against Yastremska’s five and made the same number of double faults and converted three of 11 breakpoints.

In the Round of 16, she will face the winner of Madison Keys (14) vs Danielle Collins (11) match.

As reported, Rybakina stormed into the Australian Open-2025 with two major wins: first she overwhelmed Australian player Emerson Jones with a total score of 6:1, 6:1, and them beat Iva Jović of the U.S. in the second-round match.

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