Elena Rybakina has suffered another setback in her Wimbledon \u200cpreparations after withdrawing from the Bad Homburg Open \u200cwith a hip issue, tournament organisers \u200csaid on Friday.<\/p>\n
The world number two pulled \u200cout a day after a surprise \u200cround-of-16 defeat to 35th-ranked Alexandra Eala<\/a> at the Berlin Open.<\/p>\n \u201cUnfortunately, I have to withdraw \u200cfrom Bad Homburg due to \u2060some discomfort \u200cin my right hip,” Rybakina<\/a>, 27, said in \u200ba story shared by the tournament’s official Instagram page.<\/p>\n “I need to \u200bconsult with my medical team and undergo further assessment before making any \u2060decisions about the \u200bnext steps. Thank you for your understanding and support.\u201d<\/p>\n The 2022 Wimbledon champion has now lost three of her last \u200cfour matches, a run that began with a second-round defeat to Yuliia Starodubtseva<\/a> at the French Open.<\/p>\n On grass, she won her opening match at Queen\u2019s Club before losing to Katie Boulter<\/a> in the quarter-finals, and then fell 7-5 6-4<\/a> to Eala in Berlin on Thursday.<\/p>\n Rybakina \u200cis 32-10 this season, having won \u200btitles at the Australian Open and \u200cStuttgart, but will now focus on regaining fitness ahead of Wimbledon, which begins on June 29, as she bids for a second title at \u2060the All \u2060England Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina has suffered another setback in her Wimbledon \u200cpreparations after withdrawing from the Bad Homburg Open \u200cwith…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-714891","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\/714891","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=714891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}