{"id":25593,"date":"2025-10-25T06:40:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/elena-rybakina-withdraws-from-pan-pacific-open-due-to-back-pain\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T06:40:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:40:57","slug":"elena-rybakina-withdraws-from-pan-pacific-open-due-to-back-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/elena-rybakina-withdraws-from-pan-pacific-open-due-to-back-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina withdraws from Pan Pacific Open due to back pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>TOKYO &#8212; Elena Rybakina withdrew from the Pan Pacific Open on Saturday, citing back problems, a day after clinching her final remaining spot in the WTA Finals with a win in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 Wimbledon champion was scheduled to face Linda Noskova in the semi-finals of the Tokyo Games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very disappointed that I could not play today,&#8221; Rybakina said in a statement. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been having problems with my lower back this week and can&#8217;t play 100%.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina defeated Victoria Mboko 6-3, 7-6 (4) on Friday to book an eighth place spot in next month&#8217;s lucrative WTA Finals in Saudi Arabia.<\/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 &#8212; Elena Rybakina withdrew from the Pan Pacific Open on Saturday, citing back problems, a day after clinching her final remaining spot in the WTA Finals with a win in the quarterfinals. The 2022 Wimbledon champion was scheduled to face Linda Noskova in the semi-finals of the Tokyo Games. &#8220;I am very disappointed that [&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":[394,529,32,6699,344,6698,530,24,2927],"class_list":{"0":"post-25593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-due","9":"tag-elena","10":"tag-open","11":"tag-pacific","12":"tag-pain","13":"tag-pan","14":"tag-rybakina","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-withdraws"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25593","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=25593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25593\/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=25593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}