{"id":130420,"date":"2025-08-09T00:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/130420\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T00:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:45:13","slug":"paula-badosa-withdraws-from-us-open-due-to-ongoing-back-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/130420\/","title":{"rendered":"Paula Badosa withdraws from US Open due to ongoing back injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Former top-10 player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2731\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paula Badosa<\/a> pulled out of the US Open on Friday after dealing with a back injury that has sidelined her since a first-round loss at Wimbledon on June 30.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Tennis Association announced Badosa&#8217;s withdrawal and said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2617\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jil Teichmann<\/a> would replace her in the field. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/player\/_\/id\/476\/alize-cornet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aliz\u00e9 Cornet<\/a>, who retired from tennis in 2024 but returned to action this year, is the next woman in line to get a berth in the draw at Flushing Meadows if someone else pulls out.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/45926342\/canadian-open-finalists-mboko-osaka-pull-cincinnati-open\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/r1529315_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Play is scheduled to begin Aug. 24 in the singles brackets at the year&#8217;s final Grand Slam tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Badosa, a 27-year-old from Spain, reached a career-best ranking of No. 2 in 2022 and is currently No. 12.<\/p>\n<p>She reached the semifinals at the Australian Open in January. Her best showing at the US Open was a run to the quarterfinals last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; Former top-10 player Paula Badosa pulled out of the US Open on Friday after dealing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-130420","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-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114996047032775712","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}