World no.450 Elena Rybakina beats world no.7 Garcia

Incredible stuff in St. Petersburg. Caroline Garcia was fresh from achieving a new world no.7 career high to suffer from one of the most humiliating losses of her career to the world no.450 Elena Rybakina.

The 18 years old from Russian is having an incredible run in St. Petersburg to also beat in straight sets  Timea Bacsinszky in the first round after playing the qualifications.

Now Elena goes one step further to beat Caroline Garcia 4-6 7-6 (6) 7-6 (5) after saving 1 set point en route.

Elena will face either Julia Goerges or Roberta Vinci for a place in the semifinals.

That’s no bad!


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