{"id":567270,"date":"2026-03-28T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/567270\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T20:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T20:49:08","slug":"world-no-9-vicky-mboko-withdraws-from-canadas-billie-jean-king-cup-tie-in-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/567270\/","title":{"rendered":"World No. 9 Vicky Mboko withdraws from Canada\u2019s Billie Jean King Cup tie in Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Tennis star Victoria Mboko has withdrawn from Canada\u2019s upcoming Billie Jean King Cup tie in Kazakhstan due to scheduled dental surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The world No. 9 from Burlington, Ont., said in a statement Saturday that she is getting four wisdom teeth removed after experiencing recurring dental pain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Marina Stakusic of Mississauga, Ont., is also withdrawing from the tie, citing back pain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tennis Canada says Ariana Arseneault of Richmond Hill, Ont., has been added to the roster and will join Mississauga\u2019s Bianca Andreescu, Ottawa\u2019s Gabriela Dabrowski and Kayla Cross of London, Ont.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The best-of-five tie will be played April 10-11 on an indoor clay court at the Beeline Arena in Astana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The winner will advance to the 2026 finals in September, while the other team will compete in the November playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 28, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Tennis star Victoria Mboko has withdrawn from Canada\u2019s upcoming Billie Jean King Cup tie in Kazakhstan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-567270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567270","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=567270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}