{"id":36354,"date":"2021-05-25T12:35:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T16:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=36354"},"modified":"2021-05-25T12:36:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T16:36:30","slug":"bianca-andreescu-withdraws-strasbourg-hopefu-french-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/05\/25\/bianca-andreescu-withdraws-strasbourg-hopefu-french-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Bianca Andreescu Withdraws Before Strasbourg Quarterfinals, But Hopeful for French Open Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bianca Andreescu has withdrawn from her upcoming quarterfinal at the WTA Internationaux de Strasbourg due to an abdominal injury. Andreescu had picked up the second successive win of her clay-court campaign with a straightforward victory over qualifier Maryna Zanevska on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>However, Andreescu admitted during the post-match press conference she had felt discomfort on her side. She referred to the injury as an abdominal tear, but explained the decision was precautionary with Roland Garros just a few days away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McIntyreTennis\/status\/1397221739176808461\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andreescu said,<\/a>&#8220;I will be pulling out of my next match because I did feel a little bit of an ab tear, just a little bit and I don\u2019t want to push it at all for the French Open, I don\u2019t want to take any risks so I have to pull out. Nothing serious though.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Bianca Andreescu d\u00e9clare forfait pour raisons m\u00e9dicales. <br \/>On lui souhaite bon r\u00e9tablissement et on esp\u00e8re la revoir l&#39;ann\u00e9e prochaine \ud83d\udcaa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bandreescu_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Bandreescu_<\/a> forfeits for medical reasons and is out of the IS tournament. We wish her a speedy recovery and hope to see her next year!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IS21?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#IS21<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DBlqBbGMRq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/DBlqBbGMRq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Internationaux de Strasbourg (@WTA_Strasbourg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA_Strasbourg\/status\/1397215088214487046?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old Canadian was playing in her first tournament since reaching the Miami Open final. She has seen her career blighted by <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/02\/21\/bianca-andreescu-withdraws-three-tournaments\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">a series of injuries<\/a> in the recent past. Andreescu&#8217;s progress has been stop-start in this early part of the season.<\/p>\n<h4>Bianca Andreescu in 2020-21<\/h4>\n<p>She retired in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/04\/02\/bianca-andreescu-vs-ash-barty-paths-to-the-miami-open-final\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">aforementioned Miami final<\/a> when trailing Ashleigh Barty 6-4 4-0 because of a foot injury. And her clay-court season began in the worst possible manner after testing positive for coronavirus on arrival in Spain for the Mutua Madrid Open.<\/p>\n<p>She sat out both WTA 1000 events in Madrid and Rome to observe quarantine measures and recover in time for the second Grand Slam of the year. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2019\/09\/07\/bianca-andreescu-us-open-champion\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">2019 US Open champion<\/a> has won 11 matches this year in just four tournaments. She did not play a single match during the entire 2020 season due to a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Andreescu&#8217;s last appearance at the French Open was in 2019, where she reached the second round before pulling out with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second high-profile abdominal injury that a player has suffered in 2021. Novak Djokovic <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/02\/13\/novak-djokovic-australian-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">endured a similar problem during the Australian Open<\/a> in his five-set win over American Taylor Fritz. Although Djokovic did not disclose the nature of the damage, he played through the entire tournament and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/02\/21\/novak-djokovic-australian-open-title-18th-grand-slam\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">won his 9th title in Melbourne<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Can Andreescu pull off a miraculous recovery in time for the French Open? Or is time running out for the crafty Canadian to force her way into Grand Slam reckoning?<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bianca Andreescu has withdrawn from her upcoming quarterfinal at the WTA Internationaux de Strasbourg due to an abdominal injury. Andreescu had picked up the second successive win of her clay-court campaign with a straightforward victory over qualifier Maryna Zanevska on Tuesday. However, Andreescu admitted during the post-match press conference she had felt discomfort on her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":34403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,5],"tags":[3553,22,6084],"class_list":["post-36354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta","category-featured","category-french-open","tag-bianca-andreescu","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-wta-strasbourg"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}