‘Limiting Me Physically and Mentally’ – Injury Forces French Open 2021 Finalist Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova to Take a Brutal Call On Her Season

There has been a lot of turmoil recently on the tour for the Russian tennis players after Wimbledon banned them. Many players are expressing their views. Some of them are positive and some are negative. Safe to say, Russian players are not having a great time on the tour for both ATP and WTA players. Meanwhile, another Russian player, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, announces sad news for her fans regarding her campaign this season. 

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is set to miss the entire 2022 

Earlier, the 2021 French Open finalist, posted a message on her Twitter where she talked about dealing with injuries throughout this season till now. She wrote, “Update – Hi all! I’m very sad to say, that i’m forced to withdraw from Roland Garros @rolandgarros and the rest of the tournaments this year! I have been playing this in my head for the last week and it has been a really tough decision to make, as Roland Garros was always very special to me, especially after a dream run last year!”

“But due to the pain for a long time, now the injury is limiting me physically and mentally to compete and practice fully. After rehabbing for months this year and only played at 3 events, the last two tournaments has showed me, that the pain was still there and i wasn’t ready, so have decided to take more time and come back stronger next year! Thanks for the support. Until next year!” she further stated. 

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Notably, the 30-year-old Russian tennis star only played three tournaments in 2022. Those tournaments are the Australian Open, Madrid Open, and the Italian Open. In the last two tournaments, she lost in the very first round and her best result came at the Australian Open, where she reached the third round. 

Pavlyuchenkova had a great 2021

Currently ranked-21 in the WTA rankings, Pavlyuchenkova had one of the best seasons of her career last year. Although she didn’t win any significant trophies last year, she did achieve her career-high 11 rankings in 2021. Also, she reached the final of a Grand Slam for the first time in her career at the French Open. Unfortunately, she lost to the Czech player Barbora Krejcikova. 

Before that, she reached the semi-final of the Madrid Open, and later, she reached the 4th round at the US Open. Overall, she had a pretty consistent 2021 and now the injury has caused a massive setback in her career. 

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