{"id":913,"date":"2023-09-25T13:55:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T17:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/elena-rybakina-withdraws-from-pan-pacific-amid-wta-criticism\/25\/09\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T13:55:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T17:55:42","slug":"elena-rybakina-withdraws-from-pan-pacific-amid-wta-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/elena-rybakina-withdraws-from-pan-pacific-amid-wta-criticism\/25\/09\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina withdraws from Pan Pacific amid WTA criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Former Wimbledon champion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Elena Rybakina<\/a> on Monday pulled out of the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, days after slamming the WTA for the introduction of performance byes at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Byes are usually awarded to top-seeded players, but performance byes allow for players who have played well in the previous week to move directly into the second round of the following tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Byes for the Pan Pacific Open were given to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Maria Sakkari<\/a>, who won the Guadalajara Open title on Saturday, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1804\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Caroline Garcia<\/a>, who reached the semi-finals. Both players are ranked lower than Rybakina, who was drawn against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=6970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Linda Noskova<\/a> in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a player I want to give my all on the court and at the moment my body is not ready to do that,&#8221; Rybakina said on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s why I decided to listen to my body and withdraw from the tournament. I love Japan, my fans here are so unique and for that reason this is a tough decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina said her decision to withdraw from the tournament had nothing to do with her missing out on a bye, adding: &#8220;The WTA topic is another topic, on which I have my opinions and will clearly voice them in future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/38489834\/elena-rybakina-withdraws-pan-pacific-amid-wta-criticism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina on Monday pulled out of the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, days after slamming the WTA for<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/elena-rybakina-withdraws-from-pan-pacific-amid-wta-criticism\/25\/09\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[739,734,738,737,735,736,229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}