{"id":399970,"date":"2026-01-08T15:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/399970\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:20:12","slug":"chinas-zheng-to-miss-australian-open-as-recovery-from-elbow-surgery-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/399970\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Zheng to miss Australian Open as recovery from elbow surgery continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">Zheng Qinwen has withdrawn from this month&#8217;s Australian Open as she continues to work \u200bher way back to full fitness after undergoing elbow surgery, the \u200cOlympic champion said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200cworld number 24, who reached the Melbourne final in 2024, took a break from the \u2060sport last year after opting to \u200cundergo arthroscopic surgery on her right \u200belbow.<\/p>\n<p>She missed the US Open before returning to \u200daction at the China Open in September, where she was forced \u200cto retire from her third-round match due to pain in her elbow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Making this decision has \u2060been incredibly difficult for me. Melbourne is my &#8216;lucky place&#8217;, where I won my first Grand Slam main draw match and where I had my best experience,&#8221; China&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/zheng-qinwen\/xCyEhjAS\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zheng<\/a> said in a statement on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a special connection \u2060to this place, and I \u200cwas very eager to start my new season at the Melbourne Park.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The season&#8217;s opening Grand Slam begins on \u2060January 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zheng Qinwen has withdrawn from this month&#8217;s Australian Open as she continues to work \u200bher way back to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-399970","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\/399970","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=399970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}