year 2023 is difficult for Garbine Muguruza. The former world number 1 is still not back to being the tennis player who wowed the world in his time with his powerful groundstrokes that allowed him to be crowned champion at tournaments such as Roland Garros.
So far this year he has four losses in four games, and to make matters worse, a few hours before his debut in the Abu Dhabi tournament, he announced that he would not compete “for personal reasons” and that he was removed from subsequent contests by Doha and Dubai. The idea is that his return coincides with the Premier 1000 of Indian Wellswhich takes place at the beginning of March, but it won’t be like that either.
The Spanish expressed it give up the Californian tournament and Miamitwo of the most important events on the calendar and where he will play in previous stages. “I will take a break from racing in the next few weeks. I will continue to work with my team to get back to my level of tennis and be ready to compete again.”explained Muguruza.
His absence from these two tournaments would further compromise his ranking position, but due to the ‘top20 WC’ rule, he could have an invitation to all the non-mandatory tournaments, a situation that would allow him to -access to certain events. going to Roland Garros to increase the sensations and results. Of course, the truth is that only victories can help him change course.
a difficult year
Between the whole of 2022 and 2023, the Spaniard was only able to string together two consecutive victories at the past US Open (he fell in the third round) and at the WTA 500 in Doha just a year ago (he reached the quarterfinals ). The results made it down to 87th place in the world rankingbut this position will not be the bottom.
After failing to defend their round of 16 in Dubai or their quarterfinal in Doha last year, their crisis in the standings will worsen next Monday. This is after when he will stay on a little over five hundred points on the payroll in the standings.
Just a year ago, Muguruza was ranked ninth in the world, just weeks after being proclaimed the winner of the 2021 WTA Finals, one of the greatest achievements of her career. However, next Monday, he will drop out of the top 100 for the first time since January 14, 2013.
Source: La Verdad
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