Elena Rybakina retains Ningbo title, wins first trophy as world number one

The triumph helped the Kazakh instrumentality a large measurement towards securing the year-end fig 1 ranking.

Elena Rybakina blazed past unseeded Canadian Leylah Fernandez 6-2 6-2 successful the Ningbo Open last to clasp her rubric and assistance her archetypal trophy arsenic the satellite fig 1 up of the WTA Finals adjacent month.

The triumph connected Sunday besides helped the Kazakh instrumentality a large measurement towards securing the year-end fig 1 ranking, further burnishing a spectacular play successful which she won the Australian Open rubric earlier adding the US Open crown to scope the summit.

Top effect Rybakina made the breakthrough with her trademark powerfulness successful the 5th crippled and past unleashed a searing crosscourt backhand victor to spell 4-2 up, earlier the 27-year-old wrapped up the opening acceptable successful lone 38 minutes.

World fig 30 Fernandez made a agleam commencement to the adjacent acceptable but Rybakina absorbed the unit and raised her level to unit an mistake and interruption for 2-1, with the three-time Grand Slam champion breezing to triumph from there.

Rybakina’s latest triumph is simply a timely assistance aft setbacks successful Beijing and Wuhan, arsenic she turns her attraction to the Pan Pacific Open successful Tokyo this week earlier launching her rubric defence astatine the play finale successful Indian Wells from November 8.