July 19 (Reuters) – Wimbledon \u2060finalist Karolina Muchova said on Saturday \u2060she would miss next month’s Canadian Open \u200cafter undergoing minor surgery.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old Czech lost to compatriot Linda Noskova 6-2 5-7 6-3 in the Wimbledon \u200bfinal earlier this month.<\/p>\n
It was \u2060the second Grand \u2060Slam final defeat of Muchova’s career, following her \u2060loss \u200cto Poland’s Iga Swiatek at the 2023 French Open.<\/p>\n
“I had to \u2060undergo a small surgery that will keep \u200bme off \u200cthe court for a few weeks. Everything \u2060went \u200bwell, and I’m already working on my recovery,” Muchova posted on social media.<\/p>\n
“Sad to be \u2060missing Toronto this year. I \u200bwas really looking forward to making my debut there, but recovery comes first.”<\/p>\n
The world number six \u2060has struggled with a series of injury setbacks during her career, including recurring wrist problems.<\/p>\n
Muchova did not disclose the nature of \u200bthe injury or provide \u2060a timeline for her return, but she is \u200bexpected to be fit \u200cfor the U.S. Open, which \u200bbegins next month.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Suramya Kaushik in Bengaluru; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 19 (Reuters) – Wimbledon \u2060finalist Karolina Muchova said on Saturday \u2060she would miss next month’s Canadian Open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,71209,82,593],"class_list":["post-811838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-na","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811838","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=811838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}