{"id":250740,"date":"2025-10-25T13:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/250740\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T13:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:01:06","slug":"elena-rybakina-pulls-out-of-pan-pacific-open-citing-back-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/250740\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina pulls out of Pan Pacific Open citing back pain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oct 25, 2025, 05:58 AM ET<\/p>\n

TOKYO — Elena Rybakina<\/a> pulled out of the Pan Pacific Open on Saturday, citing a back problem a day after her quarterfinal victory clinched the last remaining spot for the WTA Finals.<\/p>\n

The 2022 Wimbledon champion was due to face Linda Noskova<\/a> in the semifinals at the Tokyo tournament.<\/p>\n

“I’m very sorry I can’t play today,” Rybakina said in a statement. “I have been having problems with my back this week and can’t play 100%.”<\/p>\n

Noskova will face Belinda Bencic<\/a> in Sunday’s final after the Swiss player beat Sofia Kenin<\/a> 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-2 in the other semifinal match.<\/p>\n

Rybakina beat Victoria Mboko<\/a> 6-3, 7-6 (4) on Friday to take the eighth spot for next month’s lucrative WTA Finals in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

At the WTA Finals, scheduled Nov. 1-8, Rybakina will join top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>, Iga Swiatek<\/a>, Coco Gauff<\/a>, Amanda Anisimova<\/a>, Madison Keys<\/a>, Jessica Pegula<\/a>, and Jasmine Paolini<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gauff is the defending champion in Riyadh. The American beat Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen<\/a> in last year’s final and received $4.8 million in prize money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 25, 2025, 05:58 AM ET TOKYO — Elena Rybakina pulled out of the Pan Pacific Open on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-250740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}