{"id":28652,"date":"2024-07-23T02:13:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T23:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=28652"},"modified":"2024-07-23T02:13:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T23:13:17","slug":"paris-olympics-vondrousova-withdraws-from-tennis-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/23\/paris-olympics-vondrousova-withdraws-from-tennis-competitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Olympics: Vondrousova withdraws from tennis competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Czech tennis player Marketa Vondrousova said Monday that she has withdrawn from the Summer Olympics in Paris due to a hand injury.<\/p>\n<p>Vondrousova (25 years old) reached the women&#8217;s final in Tokyo three years ago as an unseeded player, and lost to Swiss Belinda Bencic, seeded ninth, to win the Olympic silver medal.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss player, who gave birth to a baby girl last April, will not participate in Paris to defend her title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very sorry, but for health reasons I will not participate in this year\u2019s Olympic Games in Paris. I was hoping until the last minute that I would be able to at least participate in the doubles, but the problems with my hands did not allow me to enter the court.\u201d Vondrousova posted on her Instagram account.<\/p>\n<p>Katerina Siniakova, who won doubles gold at the last Olympics and won nine Grand Slam women&#8217;s doubles titles, will play instead of Vondrousova in singles, and Linda Noskova will play in doubles with Karolina Muchov\u00e1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events Czech tennis player Marketa Vondrousova said Monday that she has withdrawn from the Summer Olympics in Paris due to a hand injury. Vondrousova (25 years old) reached the women&#8217;s final in Tokyo three years ago as an unseeded player, and lost to Swiss Belinda Bencic, seeded ninth, to win the Olympic &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28654,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28652\/revisions\/28654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}