{"id":21503,"date":"2025-10-24T08:15:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/pan-pacific-open-elena-rybakina-beats-victoria-mboko-to-clinch-last-wta-finals-spot\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:15:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:15:56","slug":"pan-pacific-open-elena-rybakina-beats-victoria-mboko-to-clinch-last-wta-finals-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/pan-pacific-open-elena-rybakina-beats-victoria-mboko-to-clinch-last-wta-finals-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Pan Pacific Open: Elena Rybakina beats Victoria Mboko to clinch last WTA Finals spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Elena Rybakina has clinched the last spot for next month&#8217;s WTA Finals by beating Victoria Mboko to reach the Pan Pacific Open semi-finals.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2022 Wimbledon champion, who has won two WTA 500 titles this year, beat 19-year-old Mboko 6-3 7-6 (7-4) to seal her place in the end-of-season event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The WTA Finals, which features the top eight singles players and doubles teams of the year, starts on 1 November in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kazakhstan&#8217;s Rybakina 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\">Her victory over Mboko means she will join Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff, Amanda Anisimova, Madison Keys, Jessica Pegula and Jasmine Paolini in Riyadh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c1d0r2x05e4o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Rybakina has clinched the last spot for next month&#8217;s WTA Finals by beating Victoria Mboko to reach the Pan Pacific Open semi-finals. The 2022 Wimbledon champion, who has won two WTA 500 titles this year, beat 19-year-old Mboko 6-3 7-6 (7-4) to seal her place in the end-of-season event. The WTA Finals, which features [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21505,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503\/revisions\/21505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}