{"id":950624,"date":"2026-10-29T12:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950624\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T12:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:24:09","slug":"naomi-osaka-knocked-out-in-pan-pacific-open-second-round-as-elena-rybakina-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950624\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka knocked out in Pan Pacific Open second round as Elena Rybakina advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TOKYO (AP) \u2014 Four-time major winner Naomi Osaka lost in front of her home crowd to Slovakian teenager Mia Pohankova in the Pan Pacific Open round of 16 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pohankova, who turned 18 a week ago and was a wild card entry, upset No. 7-seeded Osaka 6-3, 7-5 to advance to the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pohankova will face Alycia Parks next. Pohankova was the 2025 junior singles champion at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Osaka was coming off a win over Jasmine Paolini in the first round in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In other round-of-16 matches, top-ranked Elena Rybakina beat Yulia Putintseva 6-2, 6-3 and Leylah Fernandez defeated No. 14 Elise Mertens 6-2, 7-6 (8).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Second-seeded Maja Chwalinska and No. 4 Belinda Bencic pulled out of the tournament earlier with injuries. Chwalinska had an injured left thigh and Bencic had a right-ankle injury.<\/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":"TOKYO (AP) \u2014 Four-time major winner Naomi Osaka lost in front of her home crowd to Slovakian teenager&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-950624","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\/950624","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=950624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}