{"id":174681,"date":"2025-09-22T20:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/174681\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T20:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:19:06","slug":"brazilian-tennis-player-haddad-maia-ends-season-to-focus-on-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/174681\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian tennis player Haddad Maia ends season to focus on health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sep 22, 2025, 11:43 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian tennis player <a data-player-guid=\"ae55ca3c-39be-59b7-9c0a-db154f0e8527\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2028\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beatriz Haddad Maia<\/a> is ending her season early to focus on her health.<\/p>\n<p>The 40th-ranked Haddad Maia made the announcement in an Instagram post on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m ending my 2025 season a little earlier than planned so I can rest my body and mind for a longer period,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Be sure that I will be back stronger and the best is yet to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last week at a WTA tournament in Seoul, the 29-year-old player had trouble breathing during a match and her hands were shaking while she rested between games. A physiotherapist checked her blood pressure before she kept playing.<\/p>\n<p>Haddad Maia, who was the defending champion in Seoul, won that first-round match but lost in the round of 16 to <a data-player-guid=\"346875b3-e5a7-3fe6-8397-91bed8fa224d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=10500\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ella Seidel<\/a>. The Brazilian led 5-2 in the third set and had a match point, but lost the last five games in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Haddad Maia, a former top-10 player, lost 26 of her 42 matches in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 22, 2025, 11:43 AM ET Brazilian tennis player Beatriz Haddad Maia is ending her season early to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-174681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}