{"id":45755,"date":"2025-08-05T00:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T00:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/45755\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T00:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T00:06:12","slug":"kazakhstans-elena-rybakina-advances-to-national-bank-open-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/45755\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina advances to National Bank Open semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina advanced to the National Bank Open semifinals after Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk was forced to retire with an apparent arm injury while trailing 6-1, 2-1 in women’s singles action Monday in Montreal.<\/p>\n

Rybakina, the ninth seed, converted three of her 10 breakpoint 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

After the third game, Kostyuk’s trainers wrapped her forearm in medical tape.<\/p>\n

Rybakina will face the winner of Monday night’s matchup between Canadian teen sensation Victoria Mboko and Jessica Bouzas Maneiro of Spain.<\/p>\n

Mboko upset top-seeded Coco Gauff of the United States in straight sets Saturday, winning the lopsided match in just 62 minutes.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Toronto teen Mboko upsets tournament No. 1 Gauff:\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

Canada’s Victoria Mboko upsets No. 1 seed Coco Gauff at National Bank Open<\/p>\n

The Canadian tennis star beat Coco Gauff in straight sets to reach the National Bank Open quarters.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old from Toronto has surged from outside the top 300 to No. 85 in the world rankings in a breakthrough year.<\/p>\n

The National Bank Open \u2014 a WTA 1000-level event \u2014 runs through the final on Thursday. The tournament’s top-five seeds were eliminated before the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina advanced to the National Bank Open semifinals after Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk was forced to retire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-45755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}