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!text-content\">\n                                Elena Rybakina during a match                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\"><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/elena-rybakina\">Elena Rybakina<\/a> is hopeful that she will be fit for the US Open after sustaining a leg injury, but she also admitted that it is important not to rush her return to action.<\/p>\n<p>The world No 2 was forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/elena-rybakina-injury-update-retiring-iga-swiatek-cincinnati-open\">retire from her Cincinnati Open quarter-final match<\/a> against Iga Swiatek as the encounter lasted only five games.<\/p>\n<p>There were initially fears that it was an Achilles injury with Rybakina admitting \u201cI couldn\u2019t even push from the serve. It\u2019s painful to walk, and we will know more tomorrow when I do the MRI\u201d, but those concerns have since disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>That match took place last Friday and, although the two-time Grand Slam winner has made her way to New York for the season-ending major, she is yet to practice at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>Her name is also missing from the practice schedule for Wednesday, but Rybakina \u2013 who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/iga-swiatek-ranking-points-prize-money-after-toronto-final-elena-rybakina\">finished runner-up to Swiatek<\/a> at the Canadian Open earlier in August \u2013 has given a positive update.<\/p>\n<h2>US Open News<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/us-open-warned-against-big-mistake-alex-eala-this-year\">Patrick McEnroe warns the US Open not to make a big mistake with Alex Eala this year<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/coco-gauff-jessica-pegula-join-aryna-sabalenka-elena-rybakina-wta-rankings-no-1-battle\">Aryna Sabalenka v Elena Rybakina v Jessica Pegula v Coco Gauff: Battle for No 1 spot in WTA Rankings<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI picked up some injury [in my] last tournament so I am trying to do everything possible to recover. And for now it has been going well,\u201d the Kazakh star told The Mirror US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, I was not on the court yet [to practice]. We will try it in the next few days, but yeah it seems okay. So hopefully it\u2019s going to be good for my first match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very important [to rest], in total I have like 10 days [to recover] and I still have a couple more to prepare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt depends also when it\u2019s going to be my [first] match, but we just don\u2019t want to rush and yeah, just taking my time to be 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The Schedule<\/h2>\n<p>Rybakina was due to take part in the US Open mixed doubles event alongside Taylor Fritz on Tuesday, but unsurprisingly withdrew from the tournament with the main focus on the singles competition.<\/p>\n<p>The US Open singles main draw gets underway on Sunday, 30 August with the first-round matches spread over three days.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning Australian Open champion will headline the bottom half of the draw as she is seeded second behind world No 1 and defending champion Aryna Sabalenka.<\/p>\n<p>And it is not only the US Open trophy that is on the line as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/elena-rybakina-can-become-the-world-no-1-us-open-without-even-playing\">Rybakina also has a chance to overtake Sabalenka<\/a> \u2013 who will drop 2,000 points following her title run in 2025 \u2013 in the WTA Rankings and become world No 1 for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old only needs to reach the semi-final to take over top spot.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Rybakina shares injury update ahead of US Open with No 1 spot in WTA Rankings on the line Shahida Jacobs 26 Aug 2026 7:00 AM Elena Rybakina during a match Elena Rybakina is hopeful that she will be fit for the US Open after sustaining a leg injury, but she also admitted that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-2111826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2111826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2111826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2111826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2111826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}