{"id":44157,"date":"2025-08-05T01:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T01:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/44157\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T01:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T01:24:14","slug":"elena-rybakina-reaches-montreal-semis-after-marta-kostyuk-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/44157\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina reaches Montreal semis after Marta Kostyuk retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3126\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elena Rybakina<\/a> advanced to the National Bank Open semifinals after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3382\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marta Kostyuk<\/a> was forced to retire with an apparent arm injury Monday with Rybakina leading 6-1, 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina, the No. 9 seed from Kazakhstan, converted three of her 10 break-point chances in the quarterfinal matchup at IGA Stadium. The players shook hands at the 54-minute mark before the 24th-seeded Kostyuk exited the court in tears.<\/p>\n<p>After the third game, the Ukrainian&#8217;s trainers wrapped her forearm in medical tape.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/45901380\/emma-raducanu-hires-rafael-nadal-former-coach-team-francis-roig-reports\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/r1527876_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rybakina will face the winner of Monday night&#8217;s matchup between Canadian teen sensation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=11219\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Mboko<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=6059\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Bouzas Maneiro<\/a> of Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Mboko upset top-seeded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3626\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coco Gauff<\/a> in straight sets Saturday, winning the lopsided match in just 62 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old from Toronto has surged from outside the top 300 to No. 85 in the WTA rankings in a breakthrough year.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament final is Thursday. The event&#8217;s top-five seeds were eliminated before the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL &#8212; Elena Rybakina advanced to the National Bank Open semifinals after Marta Kostyuk was forced to retire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-44157","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\/44157","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=44157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}