Sandy's Tennis Corner
  • Home
    • About Sandy Bell
    • Untitled
    • Untitled
  • Untitled
    • Untitled
    • Untitled
    • Untitled
  • Untitled
    • Untitled >
      • About Competitive Play
      • USTA League News & Schedule
      • USTA Flex Leagues
      • Palm Tennis, Florida Cup, & Palm Beach Womens Tennis Association (North & South)
      • Palm Beach County Senior League
    • Juniors >
      • Questions on Tournament Tennis
      • USTA Competitive Tournaments
      • USTA Junior Team Tennis
    • Wheelchair Tennis
  • Kids Zone (3 -10 yrs)
    • 10 & Under Program Guidelines
    • NJTL Program
    • Parents Corner
  • High School & Collegiant
    • Local Collages
  • Gallery
  • Videos
  • Blog
  • Back to Basics
    • Equipment Basics
    • Rules & Regulations
    • Rating Guidelines >
      • Adults
      • Juniors
  • Health & Wellness
    • Heat Illness
    • Drug Education
    • Sports Nutrition
    • Fitness Training (Endurance & Strength)
  • Pro Shop
  • My Calendar
  • Links & Contact
  • Home
    • About Sandy Bell
    • Untitled
    • Untitled
  • Untitled
    • Untitled
    • Untitled
    • Untitled
  • Untitled
    • Untitled >
      • About Competitive Play
      • USTA League News & Schedule
      • USTA Flex Leagues
      • Palm Tennis, Florida Cup, & Palm Beach Womens Tennis Association (North & South)
      • Palm Beach County Senior League
    • Juniors >
      • Questions on Tournament Tennis
      • USTA Competitive Tournaments
      • USTA Junior Team Tennis
    • Wheelchair Tennis
  • Kids Zone (3 -10 yrs)
    • 10 & Under Program Guidelines
    • NJTL Program
    • Parents Corner
  • High School & Collegiant
    • Local Collages
  • Gallery
  • Videos
  • Blog
  • Back to Basics
    • Equipment Basics
    • Rules & Regulations
    • Rating Guidelines >
      • Adults
      • Juniors
  • Health & Wellness
    • Heat Illness
    • Drug Education
    • Sports Nutrition
    • Fitness Training (Endurance & Strength)
  • Pro Shop
  • My Calendar
  • Links & Contact
Search by typing & pressing enter

YOUR CART

6/22/2010

Former #1 Safina has Withdrawn from Wimbledon

0 Comments

Read Now
 
A year ago Dinara Safina began Wimbledon as the world no.1 but now the Russian’s career appears to hang in the balance as she was forced to withdraw from the Championships with a recurrence of the back injury which has plagued her for the last eight months. Safina was a semi-finalist at Wimbledon last year but has now dropped to 21st place  on the latest WTA Tour ranking list and now seems destined to go much lower. She finally succumbed to the injury late on Saturday after originally being included in the Ladies Singles draw as 20th seed but reported on twitter:  “My back injury came back and I can't play. I tried but I can't. Sorry
 
“It was really not easy for me to take this decision but was no more choice.”
 Safina, aged 24, first complained about her troublesome back at last year’s Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Championships when she was forced to withdraw and despite two months of rest was far from 100% fit during the Australian Open when she again retired from her fourth round match against fellow Muscovite Maria Kirilenko. She did not play again until April but, after winning her first match at her first tournament back in Stuttgart, she has since failed to claim a victory and lost in the first round in the Netherlands at s'Hertogenbosch last week.
 
Safina’s losing run included a first round defeat at the French Open where she was defending a mass of ranking points after reaching the final 12 months earlier and she complained her back condition prevented her from addressing issues in her game.
 
She said: “Basically I couldn't work on my serve until I got to Paris and then I had a lot of trouble with the motion during my matches.”

Share

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Sandy

    Check out each week new ideas, tennis tips, advice,tennis gossip, & news.

    Archives

    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010
    September 2010
    August 2010
    July 2010
    June 2010
    May 2010
    April 2010
    March 2010
    February 2010
    January 2010
    December 2009
    November 2009
    October 2009

    Categories

    All Equipment Events Instruction & Technique Instuction & Technique Introduction News News Tennis Gossipe4871d6eed New & Tennis Gossip Rules & Regulations Sports Science Sports Science Heat Illness Sports Science Hydration Sports Science Mental Training Sports Science Nutrition Spring Training Strategy Strategy Play Teenis News & Gossip Tennis News Tennis News &Gossip Tennis News & Gossip Tennis NEws & Gossip

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.