Vondrousova withdraws from Paris 2024 Olympic Tennis Event
Marketa Vondrousova has withdrawn from the Paris 2024 Olympic Tennis Event due to health reasons.
The 25-year-old has been replaced in the singles event by world No. 38 Katerina Siniakova, while Linda Noskova will pair up with Karolina Muchova in the doubles event.
Vondrousova became the first Czech woman to make an Olympic singles final when she reached the gold medal match at Tokyo 2020, ultimately settling for silver after falling to Belinda Bencic in three sets.
She will not have the chance to go one better on the clay of Roland Garros at Paris 2024, citing hand problems as cause for her to skip both the singles and doubles events, the latter of which she had been scheduled to play alongside Muchova.
“I am very sorry but due to health reasons I will not be participating in this year’s Olympic Games in Paris,” she posted on Instagram. “I hoped until the last moment that it could go at least in a doubles, but the hand problems do not let me go on the court.
“I’m concentrating now to be okay at the US Open, I will keep my fingers crossed for all Czech representatives in France from a distance.”
Vondrousova's withdrawal means Siniakova will contest the singles event at an Olympic Games for the first time. The 28-year-old made her Olympic debut in doubles at Tokyo 2020, going on to win gold alongside Barbora Krejcikova.
Siniakova and Krejcikova are re-uniting as a team in a bid to defend their Olympic title next week. Just two doubles pairs have achieved the feat in Olympic tennis history - Gigi Fernandez and Mary Joe Fernandez (who won 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta) and Serena and Venus Williams, who won at Beijing 2008 and defended their crown at London 2012.
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