LONDON (AP) \u2014 Rising star Victoria Mboko will miss Wimbledon 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.<\/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.<\/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” 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","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":18226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[821,7062,7421,1828,264,263,1826,1827,122,409],"class_list":["post-18994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-victoria-mboko","tag-hailey-baptiste","tag-karolina-pliskova","tag-mboko-mcl-knee-wimbledon-serena-williams","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-32564-ap-online-tennis-news","tag-serena-williams","tag-victoria-mboko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18994","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=18994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}