{"id":78353,"date":"2026-09-06T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/sabalenka-battles-past-townsend-to-set-up-noskova-us-open-quarter-final\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T16:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:00:28","slug":"sabalenka-battles-past-townsend-to-set-up-noskova-us-open-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/sabalenka-battles-past-townsend-to-set-up-noskova-us-open-quarter-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabalenka battles past Townsend to set up Noskova US Open quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Reigning champion beats Townsend in straight sets<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Linda Noskova defeats Marta Kostyuk 7-5, 5-7, 6-4<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s US Open title defence continued to gather steam\u00a0as she returned to the \u00adquarter\u2011finals at Flushing Meadows with a solid \u00adperformance and an assured \u00advictory, defeating Taylor Townsend 6-4, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>This was a challenging match despite the routine scoreline, with Sabalenka failing initially to serve out\u00a0the first set, trailing 1-3 in set two\u00a0and dropping serve four times. But she handled the decisive moments with composure, rolling through the final five games of the match to\u00a0advance against the American.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/sep\/06\/aryna-sabalenka-taylor-townsend-carlos-alcaraz-tommy-paul-us-open-2026-tennis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reigning champion beats Townsend in straight sets Linda Noskova defeats Marta Kostyuk 7-5, 5-7, 6-4 Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s US Open title defence continued to gather steam\u00a0as she returned to the \u00adquarter\u2011finals at Flushing Meadows with a solid \u00adperformance and an assured \u00advictory, defeating Taylor Townsend 6-4, 6-3. This was a challenging match despite the routine scoreline, &#8230; <a title=\"Sabalenka battles past Townsend to set up Noskova US Open quarter-final\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/sabalenka-battles-past-townsend-to-set-up-noskova-us-open-quarter-final\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sabalenka battles past Townsend to set up Noskova US Open quarter-final\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}