2022 US Open quarterfinalist Ajla Tomljanovic won’t be in the Flushing Meadows field when the tournament begins next month. The 33-year-old Aussie announced on social media Thursday that she’s ending a “challenging” 2026 WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz season early citing a series of minor injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It has been a tough year battling minor injuries, so I’ve decided to end my season earlier than planned to be healthy and ready for 2027,” wrote the former World No. 32 in a stories post to Instagram.<\/p>\n
Tomlajnovic last played at Wimbledon, where she lost in the first round to Mariam Bolkvadze. A left foot injury forced her out of the Vanda Pharmaceuticals Athens Open earlier this month, and injury-related retirements previously ended her tournaments in Adelaide and Birmingham in the year’s first half.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tomljanovic alluded to keeping busy in her hiatus through her burgeoning off-court profile, which has recently seen her feature as a social media host for Tennis Channel and IMG.<\/p>\n
“I hate being away from the tennis court but don’t worry, I won’t be too far away,” she wrote. “I’ll be around, just in a different role.”<\/p>\n
She posted a 15-17 match record on the year, with a semifinal effort at the Lib\u00e9ma Open in June and a quarterfinal run at the ATX Open in February. At the latter, she beat Venus Williams and Iva Jovic.<\/p>\n
Germany’s Ella Seidel enters the US Open main draw as a result of Tomljanovic’s withdrawal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2022 US Open quarterfinalist Ajla Tomljanovic won’t be in the Flushing Meadows field when the tournament begins next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428,1959],"class_list":["post-795784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795784","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=795784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}