Top-ranked Rybakina into Ningbo quarter-finals on return from injury
SHANGHAI: World number one Elena Rybakina reached the quarter-finals of the Ningbo Open on Thursday on her return from injury when opponent Polina Kudermetova retired. The top seed and defending champion was cruising 5-0 in eastern China when the world number 105 from Uzbekistan called it quits because of injury. Moscow-born Kazakh Rybakina will face Poland’s unseeded Katarzyna Kawa in the last…
Elena Rybakina, the world's top-ranked tennis player, made a triumphant return from injury by advancing to the quarter-finals of the Ningbo Open in China on Thursday. The defending champion, who had previously withdrawn from the Wuhan Open due to a foot injury, dominated her opponent Polina Kudermetova, who could not continue the match due to her own injury.
Rybakina, who won the US Open for her third Grand Slam title in September, will face Poland's unseeded Katarzyna Kawa in the next round. Rybakina expressed satisfaction at being back in Ningbo and hopes to finish the year strongly. Alexandra Eala, a 21-year-old tennis player from the Philippines, was eliminated in the last 16 after suffering a tough loss to Russian world number 13 Diana Shnaider.
Eala, who became the first player from the Philippines to win a WTA title in August, put up a valiant fight against the more powerful Shnaider, who won 7-5, 6-4 in one hour and 55 minutes. The 18-year-old Jovic, Jovic, who defeated two-time Grand Slam finalist Jasmine Paolini of Italy in the previous round, will face Kawa in the quarter-finals.
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