{"id":11916,"date":"2025-07-21T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11916\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:50:08","slug":"zheng-qinwen-withdraws-from-us-open-after-elbow-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11916\/","title":{"rendered":"Zheng Qinwen withdraws from US Open after elbow surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Olympic gold medalist <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/bf9f6ac344c2b819669d89a68a992d0f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zheng Qinwen<\/a> withdrew from the US Open on Monday, two days after announcing she had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/tennis\/story?_slug_=olympic-tennis-champ-zheng-qinwen-undergoes-elbow-surgery&amp;id=45776129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">arthroscopic surgery on her right elbow<\/a> because of &#8220;persistent pain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The sixth-ranked Zheng was coming off a first-round loss at Wimbledon last month.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/45776129\/olympic-tennis-champ-zheng-qinwen-undergoes-elbow-surgery\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r1513626_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the past months, I&#8217;ve been dealing with persistent pain in my right elbow during training and matches,&#8221; the right-handed 22-year-old from China said on social media Saturday. &#8220;Despite trying various treatments to manage it, the discomfort never fully went away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zheng said she anticipated her recovery would take months, so the exit from the year&#8217;s last Grand Slam tournament was not a surprise. The US Open begins Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<p>She was replaced in the field by <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/french-open-sports-paris-leolia-jeanjean-7c240dc50a75ca9f760501f7019d3a97\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France&#8217;s <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=4453\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leolia Jeanjean<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; Olympic gold medalist Zheng Qinwen withdrew from the US Open on Monday, two days after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-11916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}