{"id":22656,"date":"2025-09-03T04:18:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T08:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/vondrousova-withdraws-from-the-us-and-sends-sabalenka-to-the-semi-finals\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T04:18:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T08:18:41","slug":"vondrousova-withdraws-from-the-us-and-sends-sabalenka-to-the-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/vondrousova-withdraws-from-the-us-and-sends-sabalenka-to-the-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Vondrousova withdraws from the US and sends Sabalenka to the semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Defending champion Arena Sabalenka returned to the US Open semi-finals without hitting the ball on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I tried my best to take you to court today, but I felt my knee again during the warm-up and after consultations with the tournament doctors, I decided not to risk exacerbating my injuries,&#8221; said Vondosova, a 26-year-old left-hander from the Czech Republic. &#8220;We would like to thank all the support in this tournament and apologize to the fans who were looking forward to the match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vondrousova&#8217;s representative told ESPN&#8217;s Mary Joe Fernandez that he suffered injuries before his three-set victory against 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Riakina, and Bondrousova played during his fourth match on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>According to USTA, Vondrousova is the first woman to give her opponent a walkover in the quarterfinals since 1988 when Steffi Graf reached the finals after Chris Evert didn&#8217;t play in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka will now meet No. 4 Jessica Pegra in Thursday&#8217;s semi-finals. This is the rematch of last year&#8217;s championship match at Flushing Meadows, where Sabalenka won the straight set.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time Sabalenka has made progress in the majors through Walkover or retirement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After all, I&#8217;m sorry to have been to Marka that she has experienced,&#8221; Sabalenka wrote on social media. &#8220;She plays amazing tennis, and I know how badly this hurts her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka told ESPN&#8217;s Chris Badden that she was &#8220;shocked&#8221; by the news after seeing Vondrousova warm up and seeing him hoped he would recover quickly in the locker room.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline float-r inline-track\">\n<h2 class=\"img-title\">Vondousova&#8217;s injury<\/h2>\n<p>Marita Vondrousova has suffered many major injuries throughout her career&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022  <b>2016<\/b>: Left elbow injury (end of May season)<br \/>\u2022  <b>2019<\/b>: left wrist injury (season ended after Wimbledon and had surgery)<br \/>\u2022  <b>2022<\/b>: left wrist injury (surged six months from April to October)<br \/>\u2022  <b>2024<\/b>: Shoulder injury (finished after Wimbledon and underwent surgery in late August)<br \/>\u2022&#8230; He retracted after a hand injury from the 2024 Parisio Games<br \/>\u2022  <b>2025<\/b>: Shoulder injury (missed 3 months from February to May)<br \/>\u2022&#8230;Also, this year I withdraw from the Australian opening due to a thigh injury.<\/p>\n<p><i>-ESPN Research<\/i><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Vondrousova was as high as sixth in the WTA rankings, but a series of injuries over the years led her to finish the tour for stretches at once. This included wrist and shoulder wrist surgery last year in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>She entered the unseeded US Open at 60th.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This place is very special to me. Just a year ago I had surgery and I don&#8217;t even know if I&#8217;ve returned or not,&#8221; Vondrousova wrote in her Instagram story. &#8220;To go back here, compete again and enjoy such a beautiful match means more than the words say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The final two women&#8217;s quarter-final match is scheduled for Wednesday: No. 2 Iga Swiatek vs. 8 Amanda Anisimova &#8211; It was the rematch of last month&#8217;s Wimbledon Finals, with Swiatek winning 6-0, 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>It was Osaka&#8217;s first Grand Slam quarterfinal since Australia&#8217;s opening in 2021, and she claimed her fourth major trophy.<\/p>\n<p><em>ESPN research and Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Defending champion Arena Sabalenka returned to the US Open semi-finals without hitting the ball on Tuesday night. &#8220;I tried my best to take you to court today, but I felt my knee again during the warm-up and after consultations with the tournament doctors, I decided not to risk exacerbating my injuries,&#8221; said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[224,1849,1904,24,2765,2927],"class_list":{"0":"post-22656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sabalenka","9":"tag-semifinals","10":"tag-sends","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-vondrousova","13":"tag-withdraws"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}