{"id":49767,"date":"2024-03-24T15:44:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T05:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=49767"},"modified":"2024-03-24T15:44:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T05:44:59","slug":"sabalenka-exits-miami-alcaraz-starts-in-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=49767","title":{"rendered":"Sabalenka exits Miami, Alcaraz starts in style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A traumatic week for world number two Aryna Sabalenka came to an end with a third round, three set loss in the Miami Open to Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 6-4, 1-6, 6-1 win for the 36th ranked Kalinina prompted Sabalenka, who had kept her emotions in check through both of her games at Hard Rock<br \/>\nStadium, to smash her racket violently three times into the court and she walked off without a handshake with her opponent.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Belarusian Sabalenka&#8217;s former boyfriend, ex-NHL player Konstantin Koltsov, died in Miami after what police called an &#8220;apparent suicide&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The pair had been in a relationship until recently and Sabalenka only announced they were no longer together following the death.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, she looked in control as she defeated her close friend Paula Badosa of Spain in straight sets on the grandstand court.<\/p>\n<p>But given the late slot on the main stadium court, Sabalenka looked to be feeling the strain somewhat more as she struggled for any kind of<br \/>\nconsistency.<\/p>\n<p>After losing the opening set, she came out fighting and utterly dominated Kalinina in the second, with her serve strong and her powerful backhand<br \/>\nstrokes too much for the Ukrainian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A traumatic week for world number two Aryna Sabalenka came to an end with a third round, three set loss in the Miami Open to Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina on Saturday. The 6-4, 1-6, 6-1 win for the 36th ranked Kalinina prompted Sabalenka, who had kept her emotions in check through both of her games at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[902,903],"class_list":["post-49767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-alcaraz-starts-in-style","tag-sabalenka-exits-miami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}