2024-05-23 12:06:31
Paris (AFP)
American Jessica Pegula, ranked fifth on the planet, introduced her withdrawal from the French Open, her second Grand Slam occasion, as a result of her failure to get well from an harm.
“Sadly, I’m saying my retirement from the French Open this yr,” the American mentioned on her Instagram account.
She revealed, “I’m simply getting once more to figuring out as regular (I haven’t had any points in a number of weeks), however I’m taking part in it fairly secure with my restoration and return to play.”
She continued, “If I had 5 to seven days left, I might be there one hundred pc.”
Pegula (30) has not performed any official match for the reason that Billie Jean King Cup in mid-April, then withdrew from the Madrid event following “hurting myself”, with out revealing some other particulars associated to the harm.
She additionally missed the Rome event, the final main event on clay earlier than the French Open.
Nonetheless, Pegula mentioned she is assured of returning to the court docket quickly, “I’ll undoubtedly be once more all through the grass season, all through the summer season and on the finish of the yr.”
Pegula was eradicated within the third spherical of the French Championship final yr by Belgian participant Elise Mertens.
As for her greatest consequence within the French capital, she reached the quarter-finals in 2022, shedding to Poland’s Iga Schwietek, who later received the championship.
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