{"id":25541,"date":"2025-10-24T08:35:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/elena-rybakina-earns-last-remaining-spot-for-wta-finals\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:35:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:35:39","slug":"elena-rybakina-earns-last-remaining-spot-for-wta-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/elena-rybakina-earns-last-remaining-spot-for-wta-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina earns last remaining spot for WTA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>TOKYO &#8211; Elena Rybakina defeated Victoria Mboko 6-3, 7-6 (4) in the Pan Pacific Open quarterfinals on Friday to earn the last remaining spot in the WTA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 Wimbledon champion will face Czech Republic&#8217;s Linda Noskova in the semi-finals of the Tokyo tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Kazakhstan&#8217;s Rybakina has secured the eighth place spot at next month&#8217;s lucrative WTA Finals in Saudi Arabia ahead of Mila Andreeva.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s great to qualify and get more matches, especially against top players,&#8221; Rybakina said. \u201cLast week I was focused on one game at a time and I knew it was going to be a long road to qualify.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the WTA Finals, scheduled for November 1-8, Rybakina will face top-ranked players Arina Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff, Amanda Anisimova, Madison Keys, Jessica Pegula and Jasmine Paolini.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff is Riyadh&#8217;s defending champion. The American defeated Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen in last year&#8217;s final and won $4.8 million in prize money.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO &#8211; Elena Rybakina defeated Victoria Mboko 6-3, 7-6 (4) in the Pan Pacific Open quarterfinals on Friday to earn the last remaining spot in the WTA Finals. The 2022 Wimbledon champion will face Czech Republic&#8217;s Linda Noskova in the semi-finals of the Tokyo tournament. Kazakhstan&#8217;s Rybakina has secured the eighth place spot at next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2872,529,111,6688,530,766,24,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-25541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-earns","9":"tag-elena","10":"tag-finals","11":"tag-remaining","12":"tag-rybakina","13":"tag-spot","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25541","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=25541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}