Elena Rybakina is one win from qualifying for this 12 months’s WTA Finals.
The 2022 Wimbledon champion defeated Leylah Fernandez 6-4, 6-3 on the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, establishing a quarterfinal with Canada’s Victoria Mboko. If Rybakina can win she’ll go Mirra Andreeva and transfer into eighth within the race to the WTA Finals, successfully ending the race.
Rybakina misplaced to Fernandez in DC earlier this 12 months in three tiebreak units, however she gained victory comparatively comfortably in opposition to the Twenty second-ranked Canadian in 88 minutes.
The opening set went with serve for seven video games and it was Rybakina who emerged from a run of three consecutive breaks with the higher hand when she broke Fernandez within the tenth recreation to take it, 6-4.
Within the second set Rybakina broke for 2-0 then saved a trio of break factors to carry for 4-1. There could be no extra bother because the world No.7 held comfortably to serve out her fiftieth victory (50-19) of the season.
Rybakina transformed three of 4 break factors on the day, and saved 4 of 5.
Seven gamers – Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff, Amanda Anisimova, Jessica Pegula, Madison Keys and Jasmine Paolini – have already certified for the WTA Finals in Riyadh, which begin on November 1.
