MELBOURNE, Australia — World No. 39 Eva Lys will be out of competition for a “couple of weeks” because of a hyperextended right-knee injury, she announced on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“After the first evaluation in Sydney didn’t show anything concerning, further tests back home confirmed a knee injury that will keep me out of competition for a the next couple of weeks…and honestly, this one really hurts,” Lys wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Being sidelined is one of the hardest parts of this journey when all you want to do is compete.”<\/p>\n
Lys, of Germany, initially suffered the injury during her three-set win over Netherlands’ Suzan Lamens at the United Cup group stage in Sydney. Running for a backhand return, her right knee hyperextended as her foot planted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Following her Australian Open first-round loss to Sorana Cirstea, Lys said she came into that match at about “70%,” and the nagging injury affected her forehand and movement, she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I mean at first I wasn’t really sure whether it’s going to be fine to play, so I was very, very happy that I could definitely go into the match,” Lys said to press. “I knew I wasn’t really at 100%, but tried everything I could.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“I’m happy it’s nothing too serious, nothing I’m going to be out for a long time with, but something that needs a little bit of attention.”<\/p>\n
Lys partnered Lamens in doubles at the Australian Open a few days later, but retired in the first set, trailing 5-0, after receiving attention to her knee.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After the Australian Open concludes, the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz heads to the Middle East, where Lys will likely not compete based on her timeline.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MELBOURNE, Australia — World No. 39 Eva Lys will be out of competition for a “couple of weeks”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-444273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444273","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=444273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}