The impending U.S. Open will probably be contested with out every other main champion in Marketa Vondrousova.
Vondrousova bowed out of the New York-based event because of a hand harm on Friday. The 18th-ranked local of the Czech Republic hasn’t performed since maintaining a first-round loss in her name protection at Wimbledon in July.
She made her private run on the U.S. Open in 2023, advancing to the quarterfinals.
Vondrousova, 25, additionally withdrew from the lately finished Paris Olympics because of the harm.
Petra Martic from Croatia changed Vondrousova within the girls’s draw, which will probably be performed Thursday. The event starts Aug. 26.
4-time U.S. Open champion Rafael Nadal withdrew from the event previous this month, saying on social media that he did not imagine he may give complete effort at the laborious courts in New York.
The 38-year-old Spaniard, a 22-time main champion, is coming off of taking part in singles and doubles on the Paris Olympics. He used to be not able so as to add to his two profession gold medals.
–Box Degree Media
