{"id":239644,"date":"2025-10-25T10:19:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239644\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T10:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:19:04","slug":"elena-rybakina-pulls-out-of-pan-pacific-open-semi-final-with-back-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239644\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina pulls out of Pan Pacific Open semi-final with back problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Several high-profile players have seen their seasons ended prematurely over recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former women&#8217;s world number one Iga Swiatek complained in September that the season is &#8220;too long and too intense&#8221; amid a string of injuries to players at the China Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bencic, meanwhile overcame American Sofia Kenin 7-6 (7-5) 3-6 6-2 to book her place in the final in the city where she won Olympic gold in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both players were strong on serve in the opening set before the Swiss won it on a tie-break. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Australian Open champion Kenin then took the second set before Bencic dominated the decider &#8211; thanks in part to some sloppy play from Kenin &#8211; to progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think it was a very difficult match,&#8221; said Bencic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really exhausted at this point. I tried to shorten the points, take more risks and tried to go for it. Thankfully today it went my way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bencic will be looking to win her second title of the season on Sunday, while Noskova &#8211; who lost in the China Open final to Amanda Anisimova at the start of the month &#8211; is aiming for her second WTA crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several high-profile players have seen their seasons ended prematurely over recent weeks. Former women&#8217;s world number one Iga&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-239644","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\/239644","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=239644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}