Victoria Mboko has withdrawn from Wimbledon due to the left knee injury that she sustained at the HSBC Championships this week.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old Canadian slipped on the grass during her second-round singles match against Karolina Pliskova, and was forced to retire while trailing 6-2, 3-4. Mboko also withdrew from the doubles event, in which she was partnering Serena Williams in the 23-time major champion’s first professional competition in nearly four years. Mboko and Williams had got off to a victorious start earlier in the week, defeating No. 3 seeds Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe 7-6(2), 6-2.<\/p>\n
Mboko made her professional grass-court debut at Wimbledon last year. She fell in the final round of qualifying to Priscilla Hon, but as a lucky loser in the main draw defeated Magdalena Frech to reach the second round, where she lost to Hailey Baptiste.<\/p>\n
The World No. 9’s withdrawal moves Darja Vidmanova into the main draw. The 23-year-old Czech, who played college tennis for the University of Georgia and was the 2025 NCAA champion in both singles and doubles, will make her Grand Slam main-draw debut. Vidmanova won her first tour-level match in Guadalajara last September, made her first WTA 125 final in Oeiras this February and reached a career high of No. 101 two weeks ago; she is currently ranked No. 119.<\/p>\n
Mboko is the third player to withdraw from the Wimbledon main draw since the initial entry list was released, following Baptiste (who sustained a knee injury at Roland Garros) and Sonay Kartal (due to a back injury). Their withdrawals moved Hanne Vandewinkel and Paula Badosa into the main draw.<\/p>\n
The next eight alternates to the main draw are now:<\/p>\n
1. Francesca Jones
2. Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva
3. Nadia Podoroska
4. Ashlyn Krueger
5. Katie Volynets
6. Moyuka Uchijima
7. Lulu Sun
8. Oceane Dodin<\/p>\n
Vidmanova’s accession to the main draw means that she is the second player to withdraw from qualifying since the initial list was released, following Marina Stakusic (due to a back injury). Elena Pridankina and Polona Hercog have now moved into the qualifying draw, and the next eight alternates are now:<\/p>\n
1. Justina Mikulskyte
2. Mai Hontama
3. Caroline Werner
4. Alice Tubello
5. Anna Siskova
6. Elizara Yaneva
7. Harmony Tan
8. Laura Pigossi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victoria Mboko has withdrawn from Wimbledon due to the left knee injury that she sustained at the HSBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593,5452],"class_list":["post-731880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}