{"id":69969,"date":"2024-07-14T00:07:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T04:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=69969"},"modified":"2024-07-14T00:20:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T04:20:47","slug":"eight-players-withdraw-palermo-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/07\/14\/eight-players-withdraw-palermo-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Players Withdraw From WTA Palermo Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/07\/12\/barbora-krejcikova-rising-from-ashes-of-a-difficult-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Barbora Krejcikova&#8217;s<\/a> three-set victory against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/07\/11\/how-jasmine-paolini-adapted-to-make-wimbledon-final\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Jasmine Paolini<\/a> to win the women&#8217;s singles title at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/wimbledon\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Wimbledon<\/a>, the WTA Tour will return to clay ahead of the Olympics at Roland-Garros in two weeks. One of these events is at the Palermo Open. The tournament has a great entry list, with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/australian-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Australian Open<\/a> runner-up Zheng Qinwen and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/06\/07\/karolina-muchova-continues-to-thrive-in-the-big-moments\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">French Open finalist Karolina Muchova<\/a> set to be the top two seeds. However, a substantial eight players have withdrawn from the Palermo Open. We at LWOT also reported on <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/07\/14\/seven-players-withdraw-budapest-grand-prix\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">seven players withdrawing from the WTA Budapest Grand Prix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Eight Players Withdraw From Palermo Open<\/h2>\n<h4>Which Players Have Withdrawn?<\/h4>\n<p>Elina Svitolina was the first player to withdraw from the Palermo Open. The Ukrainian had a solid run to the quarterfinal at Wimbledon before being knocked out by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/07\/09\/elena-rybakina-history-wimbledon-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">2022 champion, Elena Rybakina<\/a>. Unsurprisingly, Svitolina feels some additional rest is needed after her efforts in London.<\/p>\n<p>Elisabetta Cocciaretto was the second player to withdraw from the Palermo Open. A few weeks ago, she was in good form, including a run to the fourth round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/french-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">French Open<\/a>. Unfortunately, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/06\/30\/four-more-players-withdraw-from-wimbledon-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">she could not play at Wimbledon due to a viral illness<\/a>. It seems likely that is why she is choosing not to compete at her home event.<\/p>\n<p>Wang Xinyu also withdrew from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/tournament\/466\/palermo\/2024\/player-list\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palermo Open entry list<\/a>. She had a memorable <a href=\"https:\/\/eu.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/tennis\/wimb\/2024\/07\/04\/jessica-pegula-wimbledon-stunned-by-xinyu-wang\/74305173007\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">victory in the second round of Wimbledon against Jessica Pegula<\/a>. No official reason for her decision not to play in Italy has been given. She may want some extra recovery time after getting to the fourth round at SW19.<\/p>\n<p>The other five players who withdrew from the Palermo Open were Hailey Baptiste, Oceane Dodin, Yuan Yue, Clara Burel, and Renata Zarazua.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"8Ci5A8zbQUBRk84kW0pF4A\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2158708001\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'8Ci5A8zbQUBRk84kW0pF4A',sig:'qCJXJ2ADqii3zWRnX2qZvAVgcjJm3S-fizvJmKP3up4=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'2158708001',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Who Replaces Those Eight Players in the Draw?<\/h4>\n<p>Erika Andreeva replaces Svitolina at the Palermo Open. The talented 20-year-old made the second round of Wimbledon, where she lost to the eventual <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/07\/10\/donna-vekic-from-nearly-retiring-to-wimbledon-semifinalist\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">semifinalist Donna Vekic<\/a>. Andreeva has played excellent tennis on clay in the past and will hope to succeed again on the dirt.<\/p>\n<p>Emiliana Arango benefits from Cocciaretto&#8217;s decision to withdraw from the Palermo Open. She is a clay-court specialist, meaning she will relish the chance to compete at the tournament. Arango is one of the grittiest and most determined players on the WTA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Darja Semenistaja takes Wang&#8217;s place at the event. Although the Latvian has never qualified for a Grand Slam main draw, she has won several clay-court titles on the ITF Circuit. That proves she has some natural flair for the surface.<\/p>\n<p>The other five players to come into the draw are Astra Sharma, Chlow Paquet, Marina Bassols Ribera, Julia Riera and Irina-Camelia Begu.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Main Photo Credit: Mike Frey &#8211; USA TODAY Sports<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Barbora Krejcikova&#8217;s three-set victory against Jasmine Paolini to win the women&#8217;s singles title at Wimbledon, the WTA Tour will return to clay ahead of the Olympics at Roland-Garros in two weeks. One of these events is at the Palermo Open. The tournament has a great entry list, with Australian Open runner-up Zheng Qinwen and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4708,"featured_media":63199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[4,2,9],"tags":[5376,6066,12484,41699,394,5874,15201,17902,7684,3504,18822,16372,247,11115,17678,7497,18945],"class_list":["post-69969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta","category-featured","category-news","tag-astra-sharma","tag-chloe-paquet","tag-clara-burel","tag-darja-semenistaja","tag-elina-svitolina","tag-elisabetta-cocciaretto","tag-emiliana-arango","tag-erika-andreeva","tag-hailey-baptiste","tag-irena-camelia-begu","tag-julia-riera","tag-marina-bassols-ribera","tag-oceane-dodin","tag-renata-zarazua","tag-wang-xinyu","tag-wta-palermo-open","tag-yuan-yue"],"modified_by":"Jordan Reynolds","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69969","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\/4708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}