Aryna Sabalenka collapsed to a three-set loss to Jessica Pegula in the semi-finals at the 2026 Berlin Open, but how has the result impacted the WTA Rankings?<\/p>\n
World No 1 Sabalenka<\/a> was beaten 6-4, 6-7(4), 6-0 by fourth-ranked Pegula in the last four at the grass-court WTA<\/a> 500 tournament.<\/p>\n In a contest affected by rain delays in the German capital, Pegula<\/a> earned the only break of the opening set in the third game.<\/p>\n Sabalenka responded by breaking in the second game of the second set, but she was unable to convert two set points on Pegula\u2019s serve at 5-2 and was broken serving for the set at 5-3.<\/p>\n The Belarusian found herself facing a 1-3 deficit in the tiebreak when play was suspended due to rain, but she won six of the next seven points when the match resumed to force a decider.<\/p>\n In the third set, though, Sabalenka fell apart as she won just 13 of the 42 points and failed to win a game, with her 32-year-old American rival cruising to the finish line.<\/p>\n The four-time Grand Slam winner has now lost the final set 6-0 in her last two defeats, having capitulated against Diana Shnaider in the Roland Garros quarter-finals earlier this month.<\/p>\n Aryna Sabalenka thinks she has found the WTA Tour\u2019s next \u2018superstar\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Jannik Sinner or Carlos Alcaraz? Former world No 2 reveals who he prefers<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n After earning her fourth win in 13 matches against Sabalenka, Pegula said: \u201cShe came out and ripped a bunch of winners [after the rain delay in the second set tiebreak], and I told myself \u2018I guess I wanted to win in the hard way anyway.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t get super emotional. People used to tell me when I was younger that I need to yell more and jump up and down.<\/p>\n \u201cHonestly, it feels like a waste of energy to me. I just try to be myself.\u201d<\/p>\n Sabalenka started the week on 9,090 points in the WTA Rankings, and her points total will remain the same after her semi-final exit in Berlin.<\/p>\n This is because Sabalenka has defended her points from the 2025 Berlin Open, having reached the same stage of the tournament 12 months ago.<\/p>\n The world No 1\u2019s lead over second-ranked Elena Rybakina is 947 points, which is exactly the same as it was before play began this week as the latter fell in the second round in Berlin.<\/p>\n Sabalenka has, therefore, missed an opportunity to stretch her lead at the top of the rankings.<\/p>\n Pegula\u2019s run to the final has increased her points tally by 324 to 6,380, which puts her 353 adrift of world No 3 Iga Swiatek.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Projected Wimbledon women\u2019s seeds: Sabalenka No 1, Chwalinska\u2019s unusual case, Eala and Raducanu set to get nod<\/a> The post How Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s Berlin Open collapse against Jessica Pegula affects WTA Rankings<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aryna Sabalenka collapsed to a three-set loss to Jessica Pegula in the semi-finals at the 2026 Berlin Open, but how has the result impacted the WTA Rankings? World No 1 Sabalenka was beaten 6-4, 6-7(4), 6-0 by fourth-ranked Pegula in the last four at the grass-court WTA 500 tournament. In a contest affected by rain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More Tennis News<\/h2>\n
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