The Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, 26 years old and world No. 3, does not lose his smile at Wimbledon. He trains with his Tunisian friend Our Jabeur on the centre court, and immortalises it with a selfie as if everything were happiness. He coincides with the current men’s champion, Carlos Alcarazand it’s all good faces, jokes.
Sabalenka prefers to show her best side, although she would have reasons to show concern. A few weeks ago she was the victim of a stomach ailment at Roland Garros, and it cost her a defeat in the quarterfinals with the young Russian. Mirra Andreeva. “It was a tough experience. It took me five days to fully recover. I had to take a lot of medicine to heal my stomach.”
The two-time Australian Open champion would like to add another Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, where she was a semi-finalist in 2021 and 2023, but her future at the All England Club in London is uncertain.
Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka at Wimbledon
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She withdrew from one of the previous grass-court preparation tournaments, the WTA in Berlin, because “I’m not one hundred percent, although I’m doing everything possible with my team to be able to play my first match at Wimbledon,” she said, making everyone jump. alarms in the event. One of the important names could be erased from it even before its start.
Sabalenka did not guarantee her presence on the court to face the American Emina Bektas, due to physical problems. “There is some chance that he will be on track,” he said.
She confessed that “it’s been frustrating, in the last month I’ve been suffering from different kinds of pain. I try to be positive, but it’s always in my head and it’s hard for me to deal with it.”
He explained his biggest problem, a shoulder injury. “A really very specific injury. It is very rare, possibly the second or third tennis player who has suffered an injury to this muscle (the roundus major).”
And that causes confusion, since “I can do many things. I can train, I can hit baseline, but I suffer when I serve. It gives you the feeling that you don’t have any injury, but the pain appears when I serve. We do an MRI, anything , a lot of rehabilitation, a lot of treatments. But if I have to go out, it hurts.”
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He is in doubt for Wimbledon, “but I still have hopes of playing. Someone who has been struggling with so many different pains in the last few months has hopes,” he said. Aryna Sabalenkawho in March experienced the episode in Miami of the suicide of his ex-partner, Konstantin Koltsov.
Aryna Sabalenka and Ons Jabeur, selfie at Wimbledon headquarters
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2024-06-29 17:16:28
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