Victoria Azarenka (sixteenth within the WTA rating) stars in a New Wimbledon withdrawal simply hours earlier than the beginning of the competitors, the Belarusian joined her compatriot Aryna Sabalenka, who had earlier introduced her determination to followers through social media. The element.
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Victoria Azarenka, world primary in 2012 and two-time Grand Slam champion, started her European grass-court swing with a promising semi-final on the WTA 500 in Berlin. There she beat Maria Sakkari and Elena Rybakina earlier than assembly Russian Anna Kalinskaya.
Within the week earlier than Wimbledon, she determined to withdraw from Dangerous Homburg, citing discomfort, and to focus on the problem forward on the All England.
Nevertheless, the opening of the exercise arrived and The Belarusian withdrew from the match forward of her opening match in opposition to Sloane Stephens of the US attributable to a shoulder damage. In her place was Frenchwoman Elsa Jacquemot as a fortunate loser.
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Earlier, Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova and Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka had additionally formally withdrawn from the British match attributable to accidents.
The world’s third-ranked participant had introduced days earlier that her shoulder was not cooperating and that she would attempt to play, however she in the end introduced her withdrawal from the celebrated occasion.
Victoria Azarenka withdrew from Wimbledon earlier than her opening match. Getty Photographs
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