LONDON (Reuters) – Former Wimbledon quarter-finalist Madison Keys has withdrawn from the grasscourt Grand Slam resulting from an abdominal injury, the American nineteenth seed mentioned on Saturday.
Wimbledon mentioned the 27-year-old has been changed by fellow American CoCo Vandeweghe within the draw.
“This is not what I hoped to say a couple of days earlier than @Wimbledon, however sadly I’ve to withdraw resulting from an abdominal injury,” world quantity 24 Keys tweeted.
“I’m so upset, however my well being comes first and my physique wants time to get again to 100%. Lots of love London followers. See you subsequent yr.”
Keys’ injury flared up throughout her last-16 assembly with Jelena Ostapenko in Eastbourne earlier this week, forcing the event’s 2014 champion to hunt therapy whereas trailing 5-2 within the first set in opposition to her Latvian opponent.
But she was ultimately pressured to cease the match after dropping the set 6-3 because of the drawback.
Former world quantity seven Keys received her first title since 2019 on the Adelaide WTA event in January earlier than reaching the semi-finals of the Australian Open.
Her deep run in Melbourne got here after she received solely 11 matches final yr in a season when she slipped out of the highest 50, the 26-year-old saying her efficiency made her sink right into a “darkish pit of despair”.
Keys was defeated within the French Open fourth spherical by Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova final month.
(Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru; Editing by Ken Ferris)
