Ajla Tomljanovic’s season from hell has continued with the Australian No.1 compelled to formally withdraw from Wimbledon.
A 12 months after turning into the primary Australian lady to succeed in successive singles quarter-finals on the All England Club since Wendy Turnbull in 1981, Tomljanovic has misplaced her race to be match for the championships beginning subsequent week.
Tomljanovic hasn’t performed since final November after a knee damage cruelly sidelined the 30-year-old seemingly on the peak of her profession.
In addition to her back-to-back runs to Wimbledon’s last eight in 2020 and 2021, Tomljanovic final 12 months grew to become the primary Australian feminine because the legendary Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1979 to make the quarter-finals of each Wimbledon and the US Open.
Her watershed 2022 season had the Billie Jean King Cup hero poised to be seeded at a grand slam for the primary time, earlier than a shattered Tomljanovic scratched herself from the Australian Open in January.
She additionally missed the French Open and can now be a dejected observer of her favorite match of the 12 months when the grass-court slam will get underneath approach on Monday.
Tomljanovic’s absence leaves Daria Saviller, herself on the comeback path from a severe knee damage, because the lone Australian lady sure to make the Wimbledon essential draw.
Saville is utilizing an injury-protected rating to compete having solely made her comeback final week in Birmingham from a torn ACL on the Japan Open in September.
Kim Birrell, Olivia Gadecki, Storm Hunter, Priscilla Hon, Jaimee Fourlis and Arina Rodionova all should win three qualifying matches to hitch Saville in the primary draw.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
