World number one Rybakina withdraws from Pan Pacific Open with neck injury

Save Share Elena Rybakina has pulled out of the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo with a neck injury, a day after she secured the year-end world number one ranking. The Moscow-born Kazakh was due to face Canada’s Leylah Fernandez in the quarterfinals, but instead she came onto the court to address the crowd and sign autographs. She said she would return for next month’s WTA Finals in Indian Wells. “I just wanted to say thank

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