Top-ranked Ash Barty withdraws from French Open with hip injury
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Top seed Ash Barty retires with injury (0:30)
2019 French Open champion Ash Barty retired from her second-round match with what is thought to be a recurrence of an old hip and thigh injury. (0:30)
PARIS Top-ranked Ash Barty retired from her second-round match at the French Open on Thursday because of a left hip injury that had flared up during training just before the clay-court Grand Slam.
The 2019 champion trailed 1-6, 2-2 when she signaled that she couldn t continue against Magda Linette on Court Philippe Chatrier. It s heartbreaking, Barty said. We have had such a brilliant clay-court season, and to kind of get a little bit unlucky with timing, more than anything, to have something kind of acute happen over the weekend and just kind of run out of time against the clock is disappointing.
World No. 1 Ash Barty retired from her second-round match Thursday at the French Open against Magda Linette with a hip injury and the tournament is now without its top two women’s seeds.
Hip Injury Forces Ashleigh Barty Out of French Open
Barty, the world’s No. 1 player, had to leave the court for medical treatment during her second-round match.
Ashleigh Barty, who had struggled with a hip injury in her first-round win, wore a wrap on her left thigh on Thursday.Credit.Clive Brunskill/Getty Images
June 3, 2021Updated 10:04 a.m. ET
PARIS Ashleigh Barty, the No. 1-ranked player in women’s tennis, is out of the French Open after aggravating a left hip injury during her second-round match with Magda Linette on Thursday.
“It’s heartbreaking,” said Barty, who won the French Open in 2019 and did not defend her title last year after she chose to stay at home in Australia instead of traveling during the coronavirus pandemic.
PARIS (AP) â Bothered by a painful hip, top-ranked Ash Barty retired Thursday from her second-round match at the French Open, leaving the clay-court Grand Slam tournament without any of the top three women in the rankings.
The 2019 champion trailed 6-1, 2-2 when she signaled that she couldn’t continue against Polish opponent Magda Linette on Court Philippe Chatrier.
âI was battling the pain, and it just became too severe, and like I said, was becoming unsafe,” Barty said of the injury that had flared up during training before the tournament.
In addition to Bartyâs departure, No. 2 Naomi Osaka withdrew after the first round â she said she is going to take a break from competition for mental health reasons â and No. 3 Simona Halep pulled out before the tournament began because of a leg injury.