{"id":18401,"date":"2026-06-12T16:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/18401\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T16:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:37:11","slug":"victoria-mboko-to-miss-wimbledon-because-of-mcl-injury-in-left-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/18401\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Mboko to miss Wimbledon because of MCL injury in left knee"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 Rising star Victoria Mboko will miss Wimbledon<\/a> because of a knee injury sustained during a match this week at Queen\u2019s Club, where the Canadian teenager was in the spotlight as the doubles partner of Serena Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old Mboko, who is ranked No. 9, slipped and appeared to strain her knee during a match against Karolina Pliskova at the HSBC Championships. She retired from the match and later pulled out of the doubles event.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, my fall on Wednesday caused an injury to the MCL on my left knee, which sadly means I will miss the remainder of the grass season. This unfortunately means Wimbledon too, a tournament I had been so looking forward to playing this year,\u201d Mboko wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n

Williams and Mboko had won their opening doubles match Tuesday \u2014 in the 44-year-old Williams\u2019 first professional match since the 2022 U.S. Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While trying to return a shot in the second set against Pliskova, Mboko slipped behind the baseline and immediately grabbed her left knee. She told a physiotherapist there was \u201cno stability\u201d in it.<\/p>\n

In her Wimbledon debut last year, Mboko reached the second round where she lost to Hailey Baptiste.<\/p>\n

Mboko gave a special thanks Friday to Williams \u201cfor giving me this incredible opportunity to play alongside you. I learnt so much from you and am so sorry our tournament came to an end prematurely, but I hope we can play together again soon and finish what we started.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Rising star Victoria Mboko will miss Wimbledon because of a knee injury sustained during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1485,821,7062,122,50,28,409,285,1996],"class_list":["post-18401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wimbledon","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-hailey-baptiste","tag-karolina-pliskova","tag-serena-williams","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-victoria-mboko","tag-wimbledon","tag-wimbledon-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}