{"id":9449,"date":"2023-05-19T09:08:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T09:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/iga-swiatek-optimistic-french-open-defence-will-proceed-despite-thigh-injury\/"},"modified":"2023-05-19T09:08:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T09:08:30","slug":"iga-swiatek-optimistic-french-open-defence-will-proceed-despite-thigh-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/iga-swiatek-optimistic-french-open-defence-will-proceed-despite-thigh-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek optimistic French Open defence will proceed despite thigh injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1\">\n<figure class=\"gs-u-mt0 gs-u-mb-alt+ story-body__media story-body__media--figure qa-story-body-media story-body__media--lead\" data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$image-0\"><span class=\"gs-u-display-block story-body__media\" data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$image-0.0\"><span class=\"gs-u-display-block gs-o-responsive-image\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$image-0.0.0\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"gel-brevier gs-u-ph+ gs-u-pv-alt story-body__media__caption story-body__media__caption--image\" data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$image-0.1\">Swiatek has won the French Open in 2020 and 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p role=\"introduction\" class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1\"><span data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1.0\">World number one Iga Swiatek is optimistic a thigh injury will not prevent her from attempting to defend her French Open title. <\/span><\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2\">\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0\"><span data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0.0\">The 21-year-old was forced to retire from her Italian Open quarter-final against Elena Rybakina with the issue on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3\"><span data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.0\">&#8220;We did an examination with the physio afterwards,&#8221; said Swiatek.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4\"><span data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0\">&#8220;It shouldn&#8217;t be anything serious, so I&#8217;m pretty positive that I&#8217;ll be back soon.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\"><span data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">The three-time major winner needed treatment before retiring at 2-6 7-6 (7-3) 2-2 against Kazakhstan&#8217;s  Rybakina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">Swiatek was in tears as she left the court for a medical timeout during the second-set tie-break and returned with strapping on her right thigh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7\"><span data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0\">The Polish player won the previous two Italian Opens and was on a 14-match winning streak in Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8\"><span data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.0\">&#8220;For sure I feel tired. I think it was the right decision to stop playing because I felt pain when I was stretching, when I did harder movements,&#8221; she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9\"><span data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.0\">&#8220;For me, the most important thing is to play it safe and not exploit my body so much in such difficult conditions, after having to play a few matches in night sessions and after midnight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10\"><span data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10.0\">&#8220;I&#8217;m happy right now to have few days off because since [a previous tournament in] Stuttgart I wasn&#8217;t really able to recover with that tight schedule that we have on the WTA.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11\"><span data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11.0\">The French Open at Roland Garros begins on 28 May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12\"><span data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12.0\">In a message on social media on Thursday, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iga_swiatek\/status\/1659197126159790081\" class=\"story-body__external-link\" title=\"\" data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12.$link-2\"><span data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12.$link-2.0\">Swiatek wrote:<\/span><span class=\"gs-u-ml- gel-icon\" style=\"height:15px;width:15px;\" data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12.$link-2.1\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12.$link-2.1.0\"><title data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12.$link-2.1.0.0\">external-link<\/title><path d=\"M12 0v5h11.5l-5 5H0v22h22V17.5l-2 2V30H2V12h14.5l-7.8 7.7 3.6 3.6L27 8.5V20h5V0H12z\" data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12.$link-2.1.0.1\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/a><span data-reactid=\".2fteilbnktg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12.3\"> &#8220;A couple of days off for sure. And booking my flight to Paris, so fingers crossed, please.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/65644313?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiatek has won the French Open in 2020 and 2022 World number one Iga Swiatek is optimistic a thigh injury will not prevent her from attempting to defend her French Open title. The 21-year-old was forced to retire from her Italian Open quarter-final against Elena Rybakina with the issue on Wednesday. &#8220;We did an examination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9451,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449\/revisions\/9451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}