Victoria Mboko’s run on the Toray Pan Pacific Open got here to an finish Friday as she fell 6-3, 7-6(4) to Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan within the quarterfinals.
The Canadian teenager received 83.3 per cent of her first-serve factors throughout the one-hour, 31-minute match, and conceded simply one in every of three break factors within the loss.
Rybakina, the match’s No. 2 seed, fired 5 aces to advance to the semifinals on the WTA 500 arduous court docket match.
The quarterfinals bout was a rematch for the pair after Mboko beat Rybakina in a semifinal of the Nationwide Financial institution Open in Montreal.
The 19-year-old from Toronto went on to win that match as a wild-card entry.
Rybakina additionally eradicated Canada’s Leylah Fernandez from the Pan Pacific Open, beating her 6-4, 6-3 in a second-round match on Thursday.
