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Tennis-Rybakina Clinches Year-End Top Ranking with Tokyo Second-Round Win
The victory gave Rybakina the one win she needed to secure the top ranking ahead of the season-ending WTA Finals.
- On Thursday, Elena Rybakina defeated Yulia Putintseva 6-2, 6-3 at the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, securing the 27-year-old the year-end world number one ranking for the first time.
- Following a marquee season featuring wins at the Australian Open and US Open, Rybakina needed this Tokyo victory to ensure world number two Aryna Sabalenka could not overtake her.
- After defending her title at last week's Ningbo Open in China, Rybakina arrived in Tokyo having endured a brief dip following her US Open triumph, losing in Beijing and missing the Wuhan Open.
- In a rematch of their recent Ningbo final, Rybakina next faces Leylah Fernandez at the Ariake Coliseum after the Canadian defeated Elise Mertens to reach the quarterfinal.
- Heading to Indian Wells, California, for the WTA Finals following the Pan Pacific Open, Rybakina will compete against the season's top eight players from November 8-15, targeting her 16th career title.
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Rybakina clinches year-end top ranking with Tokyo second-round win
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Kazakhstan tennis player Elena Rybakina entered the quarter-finals of the WTA 500 tournament in Tokyo, Japan.
TOKYO (ANP) - Elena Rybakina has reached the quarter-finals of the Tokyo tennis tournament. The world number one from Kazakhstan defeated her compatriot Yulia Putintseva in two sets: 6-2 6-3. With her victory, Rybakina finishes the year as the world number one. She is the...
Elena Rybakina made her first career as WTA leader at the end of the season, after defeating Yulia Putintseva's compatriot on Thursday with 6-2, 6-3 in the second round of the Pan Pacific Open tournament in Tokyo.
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