{"id":943203,"date":"2026-10-23T10:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943203\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T10:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:02:23","slug":"elena-rybakina-advances-to-ningbo-quarterfinals-after-opponent-injured-alexandra-eala-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943203\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina advances to Ningbo quarterfinals after opponent injured, Alexandra Eala out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NINGBO, China (AP) \u2014 Top-ranked Elena Rybakina advanced to the Ningbo Open quarterfinals after Polina Kudermetova retired with a mid-match injury when trailing 5-0 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rybakina is the defending champion at the hard-court event in China and will next play Katarzyna Kawa, who defeated No. 5-seeded Belinda Bencic 7-5, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kudermetova called for the physio at 3-0 and attempted to continue in the second-round match before opting to stop. She was emotional as she left the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI think Polina, before, she played some tough matches and conditions here are not easy,\u201d Rybakina said. \u201dThe balls are quite heavy. I just wish her a speedy recovery and hope it\u2019s nothing too serious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alex Eala of the Philippines survived six match points before losing 7-5, 6-4 to sixth-seeded Diana Shnaider, who reached the quarterfinals in Ningbo for the third time in four appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> See AP\u2019s full tennis coverage here <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NINGBO, China (AP) \u2014 Top-ranked Elena Rybakina advanced to the Ningbo Open quarterfinals after Polina Kudermetova retired with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-943203","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\/943203","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=943203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}