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Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova has suffered an injury scare less than a fortnight before her title defence is due to start.<\/b><\/p>\n
The Czech slipped and fell when leading 5-3 in the first set of her second-round match against Anna Kalinskaya at the Berlin Open.<\/p>\n
Vondrousova clutched her right hip and called for a medical time-out before retiring two games later, with the score at 5-5.<\/p>\n
Wimbledon takes place from 1-14 July, with Vondrousova set to start her title defence on the second day<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old <\/b>became the first unseeded player to win the Wimbledon women’s singles title when she beat Ons Jabeur in the final.<\/p>\n
Russia’s Kalinskaya will face either world number three Aryna Sabalenka or compatriot Daria Kasatkina in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere on Thursday, third seed Elena Rybakina reached the quarter-finals with a 6-4 7-5 victory over Veronika Kudermetova.<\/p>\n
Kazakhstan’s Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion, will play former world number one Victoria Azarenka next.<\/p>\n
Eight of the world’s top 10 are competing in Berlin, with only top-ranked Iga Swiatek and world number seven Jasmine Paolini absent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n