Victoria Mboko’s run at the Toray Pan Pacific Open came to an end Friday as she fell 6-3, 7-6(4) to Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan in the quarterfinals.
The Canadian teenager won 83.3 per cent of her first-serve points across the one-hour, 31-minute match, and conceded just one of three break points in the loss.
Rybakina, the tournament’s No. 2 seed, fired five aces to advance to the semifinals at the WTA 500 hard court tournament.
The quarterfinals bout was a rematch for the pair after Mboko beat Rybakina in a semifinal of the National Bank Open in Montreal.
The 19-year-old from Toronto went on to win that tournament as a wild-card entry.
Rybakina also eliminated Canada’s Leylah Fernandez from the Pan Pacific Open, beating her 6-4, 6-3 in a second-round match on Thursday.
Auger-Aliassime withdraws
Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime withdrew after losing the first set 6-3 to Spain’s Jaume Munar in the quarterfinals at the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament on Friday.
Auger-Aliassime, ranked 12th in the world and seeded fifth, was seen stretching his back early in the opening set.
He dropped his serve in the fourth game and was never able to recover, though he did fend off three break points in the sixth game.
He had defeated fellow Canadian Gabriel Diallo (No. 41) and Croatia’s Marin Cilic (No. 89) in the previous two rounds.
Munar (No. 42) will face the winner of a later Friday match between Canada’s Denis Shapovalov (No. 23) and Brazil’s Joao Fonseca (No. 46) in the semifinals.
Meanwhile, Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and her American partner Sofia Kenin fell to Brazil’s Luisa Stefani and Hungary’s Timea Babos in the women’s doubles quarterfinals at the Tokyo Open.
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