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- 0:05Rybokina loses in China Open second round while Zverev wins to face
- 0:08Djokovic. This article is being read by an automated voice generated by
- 0:13Everlett. Beijing, the AP. Number one ranked Alina Ribokina was ousted
- 0:19from the China Open by number one hundred and eighteen Alina Chareva
- 0:23of Armenia in the second round on Saturday. Charaeva, held her head
- 0:27in her hands in disbelief after winning three six six four six
- 0:31six three. I was just trying to stay really hard mentally, and
- 0:35keep believing that at some point I could turn it around again
- 0:37to my side. And I guess I just never stopped believing, said
- 0:41Chareva, only the ninth woman outside the top one hundred to beat
- 0:45a number one. Rybakina had seven double faults, and dropped her serve
- 0:50five times, the last time to fall behind four two in the
- 0:52third set. New U.S.
- 0:54Open champion Ribekina became only then second woman to lose her first
- 0:58match as World No. 1. Naomi Osaka was the other in 2019.
- 1:03There was a lot going on after the US open victory. I
- 1:06didn't get a lot of chances to sleep and recover, Ribakina said.
- 1:09Congratulations to Alina. She played a very good match. Coco Gough, who
- 1:14lost to Ribakina in the US Open semifinals, won here first match
- 1:17since then against Camila Osorio 7644662. In the men's tournament, top seed
- 1:23and U.S. Open champion Alexander Zverev beat wild card Shang Junchang 6-0-63
- 1:29to set up a quarter final against Novak Djokovic. Third seated Danil
- 1:33Medvedev advanced by beating Jean Leonard Struff six four six three. In
- 1:38a second round match, Alex DeMinour beat Quentin Haley's three six seven
- 1:42six-five seven five. See the AP's full tennis coverage here.