{"id":656173,"date":"2026-05-08T14:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/656173\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:47:09","slug":"mboko-pulls-out-of-rome-with-gastrointestinal-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/656173\/","title":{"rendered":"Mboko pulls out of Rome with gastrointestinal illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"28\" data-end=\"312\">No. 10 seed Victoria Mboko has withdrawn from the Internazionali BNL d&#8217;Italia in Rome, citing a gastrointestinal illness. The Canadian teenager had been scheduled to face Tyra Grant in the second round on Friday after receiving a first-round bye.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"314\" data-end=\"532\">Mboko will be replaced by lucky loser Nikola Bartunkova, who will instead face Grant. Mboko is the second top-10 player on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz to withdraw from Rome following the exit of sixth seed Amanda Anisimova because of a wrist injury.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"534\" data-end=\"945\">Mboko has compiled a 19-7 record on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz this season. She reached the final in Adelaide before advancing to the fourth round of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"534\" data-end=\"945\">In Dubai, she made her second career WTA 1000 final and followed it with back-to-back quarterfinal appearances at Indian Wells and Miami. In her clay-court debut this season in Madrid two weeks ago, she lost in the opening round to American Caty McNally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 10 seed Victoria Mboko has withdrawn from the Internazionali BNL d&#8217;Italia in Rome, citing a gastrointestinal illness.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593,5452],"class_list":["post-656173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656173","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=656173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}