World No. 11 Karen Khachanov announces he will miss Wimbledon due to injury

World No. 11 Karen Khachanov, semi-finalist of last year’s US Open and this year’s Australian Open, as well as a quarter-finalist of the recent Roland Garros, announced that he was forced to miss Wimbledon. The reason for this was a stress fracture of the lower spine. Moreover, according to the President of the Russian Tennis Federation Shamil Tarpishchev, the tennis player will not be able to perform at the US Open either. If this forecast comes true, then Khachanov will lose his chances to compete for a place in the top eight and a ticket to the final tournament of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).

About the forced decision to skip Wimbledon, which this year will be held in London from 3 to 16 July, Karen Khachanov announced in his account on one of the social networks. “Due to an unfortunate injury at Roland Garros (a stress fracture and a partial fracture of S1 sacrum), I am unable to compete at Wimbledon for the second year in a row. The decision to withdraw from the competition was not easy for me, and until the last I hoped that I would be able to recover in these few weeks, but my medical team assured me that in my case it was impossible, ”wrote Khachanov, who did not compete at Wimbledon last year. , because then Russian tennis players were not allowed to this tournament.

About the problems of a medical nature, without specifying their specifics, Karen Khachanov mentioned in a conversation with a Kommersant correspondent two weeks ago in Paris after the defeat in the quarterfinals of Roland Garros from Novak Djokovic. At the same time, the tennis player noted that we are talking about the same injury, due to which he did not play for about a month after the Australian Open.

Now, according to the President of the Russian Tennis Federation Shamil Tarpishchev, a pause in the tournament calendar of Karen Khachanov may be longer.

“Very disappointing injury, because Karen has gained momentum, he could perform well at Wimbledon. Andrei Rublev had the same when he missed three months. So Khachanov will also miss the US Open, unfortunately, ”quotes TASS Mr. Tarpishchev, who in this case means a stress fracture of the lower spine, which forced Rublev to take a break in 2018 from mid-April to mid-July.

If Shamil Tarpishchev’s prediction comes true, then Karen Khachanov, who at the last three Grand Slam tournaments showed the best results among Russian tennis players (semi-finals at the US Open and Australian Open, Roland Garros quarter-finals) and for one week, from June 12 to 18, returned in the top ten, where he first got in 2019, he will not be able to compete for a place in the top 8 at the end of the season and a ticket to the final tournament in Turin. At the moment, Karen Khachanov has 3035 points. Of these, he scored 1,900 points this year, another 190 in July and August last year, 720 at the US Open and 225 in October and November. The loss of summer glasses for a Russian is not critical. But in order to qualify for the Turin Nitto ATP Finals, by the end of the season you need to have at least 3500 points, and without a performance at the US Open, it is almost impossible for Khachanov to solve such a problem, since only the Paris Masters 1000 category tournament takes place in the fall of the major ATP competitions .

Meanwhile, Daniil Medvedev, who, despite losing in two games on Friday to Spaniard Roberto Bautista in the quarterfinals of the Terra Wortmann Open 500 category tournament in Halle, Germany, has already scored 4,400 points this year and is second only to Serb Novak Djokovic, who has 4,745 points. , de facto already got to Turin. Andrey Rublev has excellent chances to remain at least in the top eight at the end of the year, who reached the semi-finals in Halle thanks to a victory in three sets over the Dutchman Tallon Grikspor and scored 2485 points this season.

Evgeny Fedyakov