{"id":525075,"date":"2026-04-11T11:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525075\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T11:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:47:12","slug":"world-number-one-sabalenka-withdraws-from-stuttgart-open-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525075\/","title":{"rendered":"World number one Sabalenka withdraws from Stuttgart Open with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">Aryna Sabalenka has pulled out of this \u2060month&#8217;s Stuttgart Open due to an injury she sustained following \u200cher Miami Open triumph in March, the \u200cworld number one said on \u200cThursday.<\/p>\n<p>27-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.co.uk\/player\/sabalenka-aryna\/vyhksgUB\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabalenka<\/a> has had \u200ca notable but frustrating record in \u200cthe Stuttgart Open, having reached the final four times in five \u200cyears but never winning the \u2060title.<\/p>\n<p>She lost \u200cto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.co.uk\/player\/barty-ashleigh\/Ag6k6zYM\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ash Barty<\/a> in 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.co.uk\/player\/swiatek-iga\/jNyZsXZe\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iga Swiatek<\/a> \u200bin 2022 and 2023 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.co.uk\/player\/ostapenko-jelena\/Gloq9MUN\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jelena Ostapenko<\/a> in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, \u200bI suffered an injury after Miami, and even though I tried everything \u2060to recover \u200bin time, I&#8217;m not ready to compete,&#8221; the Belarusian said on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka defeated hometown favourite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.co.uk\/player\/gauff-coco\/f5BXmEH6\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coco \u200cGauff<\/a> 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 in the Miami Open final, becoming only the fifth woman to win the Indian Wells and Miami &#8216;Sunshine Double&#8217; back-to-back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I always love coming back to Stuttgart. The atmosphere, the fans, and the support I feel there \u200care so special to me. \u200bAnd of course, I was \u200creally hoping to have another chance,&#8221; Sabalenka added after being forced to delay the start of her clay season.<\/p>\n<p>The Stuttgart Open starts \u2060on April \u206013th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka has pulled out of this \u2060month&#8217;s Stuttgart Open due to an injury she sustained following \u200cher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-525075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}