{"id":237496,"date":"2025-10-24T12:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/237496\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:07:08","slug":"elena-rybakina-clinches-last-remaining-spot-for-wta-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/237496\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina clinches last remaining spot for WTA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3126\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elena Rybakina<\/a> clinched the last remaining spot for the WTA Finals by beating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=11219\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Mboko<\/a> 6-3, 7-6 (4) in the Pan Pacific Open quarterfinals Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 Wimbledon champion will face the Czech Republic&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=6970\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Noskova<\/a> in the semifinals at the Tokyo tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina, who represents Kazakhstan, moved ahead of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=9820\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mirra Andreeva<\/a> to take the eighth spot for next month&#8217;s lucrative WTA Finals in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s great to qualify and play some more matches, especially against top players,&#8221; Rybakina said. &#8220;Last week, I was focusing one match at a time and I knew that to qualify it&#8217;s going to take a long road.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the WTA Finals, scheduled Nov. 1-8, Rybakina will join top-ranked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3038\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3730\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iga Swiatek<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3626\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coco Gauff<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3221\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Anisimova<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1556\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madison Keys<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2113\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Pegula<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2615\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jasmine Paolini<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff is the defending champion in Riyadh. The American beat Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen in last year&#8217;s final and received $4.8 million in prize money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO &#8212; Elena Rybakina clinched the last remaining spot for the WTA Finals by beating Victoria Mboko 6-3,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-237496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}