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Beijing<\/strong>: Elena Rybakina, the former Wimbledon champion, has withdrawn from the Beijing and Wuhan tournaments due to a back problem, yet she plans to return before the WTA Tour\u2019s season-ending event in Riyadh this November.<\/p>\n The fourth-ranked player in the world had a successful first half of 2024, clinching titles in Brisbane, Abu Dhabi, and Stuttgart. However, she missed several events later on because of illness and injuries.<\/p>\n Post her Wimbledon semifinal appearance, Rybakina had to withdraw from the Paris Olympics owing to bronchitis and later from the US Open in August after a lower back injury, despite winning her initial match.<\/p>\n \u201cI regret to withdraw from the upcoming Asian tournaments due to a persistent back injury,\u201d Rybakina stated.<\/p>\n \u201cHaving worked diligently on my recovery, my medical team and I agree that prioritizing my health is the best course of action at this moment,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n The 25-year-old, who parted ways with her long-time coach Stefano Vukov just before the US Open, currently holds the third spot in the WTA race to the November 2-9 Finals.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a tough year, and I\u2019m thankful for the support from the tournament organizers and all my fans,\u201d added the Kazakh athlete. \u201cMy team and I are focusing on getting me ready for the court in time for the season\u2019s end.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Beijing: Elena Rybakina, the former Wimbledon champion, has withdrawn from the Beijing and Wuhan tournaments due to a back problem, yet she plans to return before the WTA Tour\u2019s season-ending event in Riyadh this November. The fourth-ranked player in the world had a successful first half of 2024, clinching titles in Brisbane, Abu Dhabi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/download-123.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45793,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45791\/revisions\/45793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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