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lg:border-caption\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-1.5 break-words !text-xs !text-content\">\n                                Aryna Sabalenka with Elena Rybakina inset                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\">\n<p>Aryna Sabalenka has made a statement of intent ahead of the 2026 Indian Wells Open title match as she asserted she is \u201cso done\u201d with losing big finals.<\/p>\n<p>The world No 1 downed 14th-ranked Linda Noskova 6-3, 6-4 in the semi-finals at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/aryna-sabalenka\">Sabalenka<\/a> broke her 21-year-old Czech opponent three times and lost serve only once as she made it 10 consecutive sets in the Californian desert.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time Grand Slam champion saw off Victoria Mboko, Naomi Osaka, Jacqueline Cristian and Himeno Sakatsume in her previous matches.<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian star will face world No 3 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/elena-rybakina\">Elena Rybakina<\/a> \u2014 who will climb to second in the rankings after the tournament \u2014 in the championship match. Rybakina overcame world No 9 Elina Svitolina 7-5, 6-4 in the second semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a rematch of the 2026 Australian Open final, where Rybakina defeated Sabalenka in three sets.<\/p>\n<h2>Indian Wells News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/indian-wells-open-prize-money-ranking-points-earned-elina-svitolina-linda-noskova\"><strong>Indian Wells Open: Prize money and ranking points earned by Elina Svitolina and Linda Noskova<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/tim-henman-verdict-five-set-matches-grand-slams\"><strong>Tim Henman gives his verdict on female players competing in five-set matches at Grand Slams<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more from Tennis365? Add us as <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tennis365.com\" target=\"_blank\">a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka has lost six of her last 10 finals, and she was asked if she needs to find a way to get more out of herself in big finals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to focus, if I make it to the final, I want to make sure that I get it, I get the trophy,\u201d the 27-year-old said in her press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, I\u2019m so done of losing these big finals. It felt like even though players were playing incredible tennis in those finals, I feel like I had so many opportunities that I didn\u2019t use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd right now my mentality, if I make it to the final, I\u2019ll go out there and, you know, I\u2019ll do everything I can and everything I cannot to get that trophy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka was also asked about her memories of her defeat to Rybakina in the 2023 Indian Wells final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember that it was the tiebreak, like, really tight tiebreak, and I remember I had set points, and I double-faulted,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen it was very \u2014 I feel like I remember that I was one break up. Then she broke me back. Then it was a tiebreak, crazy tiebreak. Then I lost the first set. And things didn\u2019t really go well in the second set. That\u2019s what I remember.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, like, I feel like against Elena, it\u2019s always super-aggressive, it\u2019s all about the first few balls in every point. You know, if you dominate in those two points, I feel like most likely you\u2019re gonna win the point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very aggressive, very fast tennis. Yeah, if it\u2019s her, I\u2019m excited, actually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/wta-rankings-winners-losers-indian-wells-open-rybakina-overtakes-swiatek-eala-4-gibson-45\">WTA Rankings Winners &amp; Losers Indian Wells Open: Rybakina overtakes Swiatek with Eala +4, Gibson +45<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aryna Sabalenka \u2018so done with losing big finals\u2019 ahead of Elena Rybakina Indian Wells showdown Ewan West 14 Mar 2026 10:05 AM Aryna Sabalenka with Elena Rybakina inset Aryna Sabalenka has made a statement of intent ahead of the 2026 Indian Wells Open title match as she asserted she is \u201cso done\u201d with losing big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-1826318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1826318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1826318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1826318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1826318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}