{"id":18785,"date":"2025-08-04T22:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/elena-rivakina-will-reach-the-montreal-semi-finals-after-marta-kostuk-retires\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T22:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:06:15","slug":"elena-rivakina-will-reach-the-montreal-semi-finals-after-marta-kostuk-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/elena-rivakina-will-reach-the-montreal-semi-finals-after-marta-kostuk-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rivakina will reach the Montreal semi-finals after Marta Kostuk retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>MONTREAL &#8212; Elena Rivakina has made it to the National Bank&#8217;s Open Semi-finals after Rivakina led 6-1, 2-1 after Marta Kostuk was forced to retire on Monday with an obvious arm injury.<\/p>\n<p>Kazakhstan&#8217;s No. 9 seed Rivakina has converted three of his 10 breakpoint chances in the quarterfinals at IGA Stadium. The players shook hands at the 54-minute mark before leaving the courthouse, seeded in the 24th century shed tears.<\/p>\n<p>After the third match, the Ukrainian trainer wrapped his forearms in medical tape.<\/p>\n<p>Rivakina faces the winner of a Monday night matchup between Canadian teenage sensory Victoria Mboco and Spain&#8217;s Jessica Bouza Maneiro.<\/p>\n<p>Mboko upset top-seeded Kokogoff in a straight set on Saturday, winning a biased match in just 62 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old from Toronto has surged from outside the top 300 in the WTA rankings in the breakthrough year to 85th place.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament final is Thursday. The top five seeds of the event were eliminated before the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &#8212; Elena Rivakina has made it to the National Bank&#8217;s Open Semi-finals after Rivakina led 6-1, 2-1 after Marta Kostuk was forced to retire on Monday with an obvious arm injury. Kazakhstan&#8217;s No. 9 seed Rivakina has converted three of his 10 breakpoint chances in the quarterfinals at IGA Stadium. The players shook hands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[529,5272,5271,3584,197,1177,2893,1849,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-18785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-elena","9":"tag-kostuk","10":"tag-marta","11":"tag-montreal","12":"tag-reach","13":"tag-retires","14":"tag-rivakina","15":"tag-semifinals","16":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}