{"id":44845,"date":"2026-09-07T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=44845"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:34:42","slug":"sabalenka-sets-sights-on-third-us-open-victory","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sabalenka-sets-sights-on-third-us-open-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabalenka sets sights on third US Open victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">World number one, Aryna Sabalenka, is on course for a third straight US Open title.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The Belarusian breezed into the quarterfinals at Flushing Meadows in New York with a six-four, six-three victory over unseeded American Taylor Townsend.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Day eight produced very few upsets, with third seed Jessica Pegula of the United States and sixth-seeded Czech Linda Noskova also through to the last eight.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Noskova, who won the Wimbledon singles title in July, had to dig deep to beat eleventh seed Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine, seven-five, five-seven, six-four. In the men\u2019s singles, second seed Carlos Alcaraz is improving with every match he plays on his return from a four-month injury lay-off.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>He beat American 20th seed Tommy Paul in straight sets in their fourth-round match.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21159,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-44845","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Day eight produced very few upsets, with third seed Jessica Pegula of the United States and sixth-seeded Czech Linda Noskova also through to the last eight.","published_date":"","news_description":"Day eight produced very few upsets, with third seed Jessica Pegula of the United States and sixth-seeded Czech Linda Noskova also through to the last eight.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44847,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44845\/revisions\/44847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=44845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}