{"id":946469,"date":"2026-10-30T14:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T14:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946469\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T14:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T14:32:17","slug":"tennis-tennis-rybakina-withdraws-from-tokyo-quarter-finals-with-neck-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946469\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis: Tennis-Rybakina withdraws from Tokyo quarter-finals with neck injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 30 (Reuters) &#8211; \u2060World number one Elena \u2060Rybakina withdrew from the Pan \u200cPacific Open quarter-finals on Friday due to a neck injury, sending \u200bCanada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez through \u2060to the \u2060last four via walkover.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;Unfortunately, I\u2019ve been \u2060experiencing \u200cinflammation and pain in my neck, \u2060which has been affecting my ability \u200bto \u200cplay at my best,&#8221; the \u2060Kazakh \u200bsaid in a statement on the WTA website.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Rybakina \u2060secured the year-end number \u200bone ranking after beating compatriot Yulia Putintseva in the second \u2060round.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Fernandez will face Russia&#8217;sKamilla Rakhimova for a place in the final.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Rybakina is \u200bexpected to compete \u2060at next month&#8217;s season-endingWTA Finals \u200bin Indian \u200cWells, California.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Karan \u200bPrashant Saxena in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 30 (Reuters) &#8211; \u2060World number one Elena \u2060Rybakina withdrew from the Pan \u200cPacific Open quarter-finals on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,6675,85,747],"class_list":["post-946469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-na","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946469","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=946469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}