Top-ranked Rybakina into Ningbo quarter-finals on return from injury
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World number one Elena Rybakina reached the quarter-finals of the Ningbo Open on Thursday on her return from injury when opponent Polina Kudermetova retired.
The top seed and defending champion was cruising 5-0 in eastern China when the world number 105 from Uzbekistan called it quits because of injury.
Moscow-born Kazakh Rybakina will face Poland’s unseeded Katarzyna Kawa in the last eight.
