Third seed Elena Rybakina turned the most recent high-profile withdrawal from the Olympic tennis competitors on Thursday, hours after the draw was made at Roland Garros.
Kazakhstan’s former Wimbledon champion has pulled out of the singles and combined doubles through which she was as a consequence of companion Alexander Bublik.
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No motive was given for her resolution.
France’s Caroline Garcia will now transfer into Rybakina’s spot within the draw because the seventeenth seed, whereas Australia’s Daria Saville enters the draw as an alternate.
With the motion to start on Saturday, the flurry of high-profile withdrawals has forged one thing of a cloud over the match being staged on the well-known Parisian clay.
On Wednesday, males’s World No. 1 and prime seed Jannik Sinner of Italy needed to withdraw from the singles and doubles due to sickness whereas thrilling Danish teenager Holger Rune additionally pulled out on Wednesday with a wrist damage.
Czech participant Marketa Vondrousova, who was runner-up within the singles in Tokyo three years in the past, withdrew on Monday due to damage, as did Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz due to a knee damage sustained at Wimbledon.
Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic, the champion in Tokyo, can also be lacking after giving beginning to a daughter in April.
Two-time Olympic singles champion Andy Murray introduced earlier than Thursday’s draw that he was not match sufficient to compete within the singles however would nonetheless play doubles with Dan Evans.
Different notable absences from the tennis on the Video games embody world quantity three Aryna Sabalenka, Tunsia’s Ons Jabeur, Britain’s Emma Raducanu, American Ben Shelton and Tokyo males’s bronze medal winner Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain.