“I have done everything I could since Wimbledon to get myself ready but it just wasn’t enough time,” says Sharapova. PHOTO: AFP
Third-seeded Russian Maria Sharapova has pulled out of next week’s US Open due to a shoulder injury.
The 26-year-old world number three, who is suffering from inflammation in her right shoulder, said withdrawing from the year’s final grand slam was ‘a really tough decision to make’.
“I have done everything I could since Wimbledon to get myself ready but it just wasn’t enough time,” she said in statement on her Facebook page.
“I have done many tests, received several opinions and it all comes down to taking the proper amount of time to heal my shoulder injury properly.
“It’s certainly not an easy decision to make ahead of one of my favourite tournaments, but I know it’s the right one that will get me back on the courts.”
Defending champion Serena Williams is the top seed for the US Open at Flushing Meadows in New York, ahead of Belarusian Victoria Azarenka and Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska, who now moves up to third.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 23rd, 2013.
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