Australian loses 6-2, 6-2 in last 16 against world No 2 Kazakh
Gibson had beaten five top-20 tennis players in three weeks
Talia Gibson’s impressive run at the Miami Open has come crashing down at the hands of world No 2 and two-time grand slam champion Elena Rybakina.
The in-form 21-year-old Australian, who came through two rounds of qualifying in Florida before upsetting Czech Sara Bejlek, Japan’s four-time slam winner Naomi Osaka and American teenage sensation Iva Jovic in the main draw, suffered a 6-2, 6-2 loss in her last-16 clash with Kazakh Rybakina.
Gibson, who last week reached the quarter-finals at Indian Wells, was broken in the opening game and once more in the seventh to drop the first set.
