After winning the Wimbledon women’s singles championship July 11, Serena Williams has pulled out of her upcoming Kastles appearances with an elbow injury.
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The American had eased past Belgium’s Ysaline Bonaventure 6-2 6-1, but suffered the injury in training ahead of her meeting with Klara Koukalova of the Czech Republic.
Serena added that she will be taking a week off to allow her elbow to “recover”.
“I need some time to recover and rehab it, but as of now I am being forced to take the next week off. Love you all”. She said that she will also undergo rehabilitation to make her ready for the second half of the season.
Wimbledon champion Serena Williams will take the next week off in an effort to heal the right elbow injury that forced her out of the Swedish Open, she said in a Facebook post Saturday. She was later advised by medical officials to drop the tournament altogether.
Djokovic, who has reached the US Open final five times, but won the title only once, in 2011, tops an elite list that includes other former champions in Roger Federer (2004-08), Rafa Nadal (2010, 2013), Andy Murray (2012) and last year’s victor Marin Cilic.
The 33-year-old American won Wimbledon this month for her fourth consecutive major title.
Three-time defending champion Williams, who shares the Open Era record of US Open titles with Chris Evert at six, can become the first woman to win all four Grand Slams in the same year since Steffi Graf in 1988.
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The US Tennis Association said the world’s 99 top-ranked men and 100 of the top 101 women – China’s 29th-ranked Peng Shuai absent with a back injury – will be in the field when the year’s final Grand Slam event begins next month at Flushing Meadows.
