{"id":224228,"date":"2025-10-25T07:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T07:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224228\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T07:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T07:10:08","slug":"elena-rybakina-pulls-out-of-pan-pacific-open-semi-final-with-back-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224228\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina pulls out of Pan Pacific Open semi-final with back problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elena Rybakina pulled out of her Pan Pacific Open semi-final on Saturday citing back problems, a day after securing her spot in the season-ending WTA Finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2022 Wimbledon champion was due to face Linda Noskova of the Czech Republic &#8211; who will now meet Belinda Bencic in Sunday&#8217;s final in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very sorry I can&#8217;t play today,&#8221; Rybakina, 26, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have been having problems with my back this week and can&#8217;t play 100%. I am disappointed that my fans will not see me today but I hope to see you next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Kazakh beat Victoria Mboko on Friday to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c1d0r2x05e4o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seal the last spot<\/a> for next month&#8217;s WTA Finals, which feature the top eight singles players and doubles teams of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She had needed to reach at least the semi-finals in Tokyo to pass Russian 18-year-old Mirra Andreeva in the race for the eighth and final spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rybakina, who won the Ningbo Open in China last week, will rise to world number six when the rankings are updated on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina pulled out of her Pan Pacific Open semi-final on Saturday citing back problems, a day after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-224228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}