{"id":935189,"date":"2026-10-20T17:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/935189\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T17:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:42:11","slug":"swiatek-withdraws-from-ningbo-ends-season-to-rest-and-recover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/935189\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiatek withdraws from Ningbo, ends season to &#8216;rest and recover&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second-seeded Iga Swiatek has withdrawn from the BNB Ningbo Open because of a left thigh injury, and has opted to end her season early.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been experiencing an ongoing problem with my left thigh over the past weeks,&#8221; she said, &#8220;and I feel that giving myself the time to rest and recover is the right decision. I was really looking forward to competing here and I want to thank the tournament organizers and everyone who was hoping to see me play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m already looking forward to coming back next year!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek was hampered by the same injury during her loss to Maja Chwalinska in the Wuhan semifinals last week.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Get well soon, Iga. \u2764\ufe0f \u201cAfter careful consideration, I\u2019ve decided to withdraw from the tournament. I\u2019ve been experiencing an ongoing problem with my left thigh over the past weeks and I feel that giving myself the time to rest and recover is the right decision\u2026\u201d https:\/\/t.co\/x6xZJmEE36<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ningbo Open (@wtaningboopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wtaningboopen\/status\/2112411365684154442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Swiatek, who was still in contention for the last WTA Finals berth, later announced that she was calling it a season after what has been a challenging year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been one of the most demanding seasons of my career, with a lot of challenges, changes and lessons along the way,&#8221; she wrote on Instagram. &#8220;I\u2019m especially proud of the work we\u2019ve done in the second half of the year and the progress that came with it. It gives me a lot of confidence in what\u2019s ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The past few months, or actually the past couple of years, have been incredibly intense, and I feel I need to rest and recover my body fully. So that\u2019s exactly what I will do, a bit longer this time. \ud83d\ude09 I\u2019ve decided to end my season here, which means I won\u2019t be playing any more tournaments this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek finishes the season with a 39-15 record and a title in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>The World No. 9 has been replaced in the draw by alternate Anastasia Zakharova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second-seeded Iga Swiatek has withdrawn from the BNB Ningbo Open because of a left thigh injury, and has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747,83],"class_list":["post-935189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935189","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=935189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}