World No. 6 Zheng Qinwen has undergone surgery for “persistent pain” in her right elbow, she announced Saturday.<\/p>\n
The reigning Olympic gold medalist revealed the procedure with a post on Instagram, sharing a photo of herself in a hospital bed. She said that she had been dealing with the issue for the past few months, and “[d]espite trying various treatments to manage it, the discomfort never fully went away.”<\/p>\n
“This is just a short break, and I see it as a necessary step toward a better version of myself on court,” she wrote.<\/p>\n
Zheng was last in action at Wimbledon, where she was upset in the first round by Katerina Siniakova, and had been wearing a compression sleeve on her right arm in matches since January’s Australian Open. Prior to Wimbledon, she withdrew from the Berlin Tennis Open with what was announced as a neck injury, and she had previously announced her withdrawal from the upcoming Mubadala Citi DC Open earlier this week.<\/p>\n
“Grateful to have [the procedure] behind [her],” Zheng says she’ll “be focusing entirely on rehab” in the coming weeks and months — though she did not give any indication for how long she’ll be sidelined.<\/p>\n
“Doing everything I can to come back stronger and healthier,” she added<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old is 19-11 on the Hologic WTA Tour this season, with semifinal runs at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome and the HSBC Championships at the Queen’s Club as highlights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World No. 6 Zheng Qinwen has undergone surgery for “persistent pain” in her right elbow, she announced Saturday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428,1959],"class_list":{"0":"post-23013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23013","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=23013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}