{"id":268701,"date":"2025-07-17T07:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268701\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T07:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:14:14","slug":"aryna-sabalenka-withdraws-from-canadian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268701\/","title":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka withdraws from Canadian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World number one Aryna Sabalenka has decided to skip the US Open tune-up event in Montreal due to fatigue, Tennis Canada announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Belarusian&#8217;s decision to sit out the July 26th to August 7th Canadian Open follows her semi-final appearances at Wimbledon and Berlin, and after losing in the French Open final.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to kicking off the North American hard-court swing, but to give myself the best chance for success this season, I&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s in my best interest to skip Montreal,&#8221;<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/sabalenka-aryna\/vyhksgUB\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sabalenka<\/a> said in a Tennis Canada press release.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;I&#8217;ll miss my amazing Canadian fans, but I&#8217;m already looking forward to seeing you all next year. Thanks for your understanding and support it means the world to me!&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Tennis Canada also said Spanish world number 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/badosa-paula\/Wl76rX3I\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paula Badosa<\/a>, who announced this week that she has a fresh back injury, has also withdrawn from the Canadian Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number one Aryna Sabalenka has decided to skip the US Open tune-up event in Montreal due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-268701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114867343702694977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}