{"id":901823,"date":"2026-09-22T23:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/901823\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T23:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:08:09","slug":"anisimova-withdraws-from-singapore-tennis-open-due-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/901823\/","title":{"rendered":"Anisimova withdraws from Singapore Tennis Open due to injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-primary article-summary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 The ongoing Singapore Tennis Open has been dealt another blow after the withdrawal of second seed Amanda Anisimova on Sept 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The American world No. 11 withdrew from the WTA 500 tournament at The Kallang\u2019s OCBC Arena owing to a left wrist injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">She had received a bye into the second round, and is replaced by Slovak Viktoria Morvayova, who will face Australia\u2019s Talia Gibson on Sept 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Anisimova had announced her arrival in Singapore in a Sept 15 TikTok video, and uploaded a second video the next day including clips of herself practising on court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">She attended the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/sport\/tennis\/wta-players-lap-up-amazing-atmosphere-ahead-of-singapore-tennis-open?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\">tournament\u2019s welcome reception for players on Sept 20<\/a>, when she said she was hoping for another strong Asian swing, which includes tournaments in China, South Korea and Japan alongside the Singapore Tennis Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Anisimova won the 2025 WTA 1000 China Open in October, and has not won a title since. She is currently on the player list for the 2026 edition that will take place in Beijing from Sept 30 to Oct 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The Singapore Tennis Open ends on Sept 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">She said on Sept 20: \u201cI feel like I always play well in the tournaments in Asia and I really enjoy playing here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cI really like the culture and the people, and I always feel very welcome. I\u2019ve had very good results, so that gives me confidence and I always look forward to coming back here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Her withdrawal follows that of compatriot and world No. 3 Jessica Pegula, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/sport\/tennis\/world-no-3-jessica-pegula-withdraws-from-singapore-tennis-open?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\">pulled out on Sept 16<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In Pegula\u2019s place, world No. 5 and reigning Roland Garros champion Mirra Andreeva became the top seed and she begins her campaign against Aliaksandra Sasnovich on Sept 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Also in action on Sept 23 are defending champion and fourth seed Elise Mertens and two-time Grand Slam champion Barbora Krejcikova who face each other in the second round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The former Roland Garros and Wimbledon champion was put to the test by Anna-Lena Friedsam in her first-round match on Sept 22, needing to save two match points before triumphing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Filipino world No. 18 and third seed Alexandra Eala, who received a first-round bye, will open her campaign on Sept 24 against world No. 180 Tatiana Prozorova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINGAPORE \u2013 The ongoing Singapore Tennis Open has been dealt another blow after the withdrawal of second seed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-901823","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\/901823","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=901823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}