Australian Open 2024: Karoline Muchova to miss season-opening Grand Slam with ongoing wrist injury
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Published 29/12/2023 at 10:15 GMT
Australian Open 2021 semi-finalist Karoline Muchova will not feature at the season-opening Grand Slam in 2024 after withdrawing due to an ongoing wrist problem. The world No. 8 revealed on social media that pain in her right wrist - which kept her out of the WTA Finals - has returned. “It's frustrating but I have to keep positive, recover and get ready for the rest of the year,” Muchova wrote.
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Karoline Muchova will miss the Australian Open in January due to a wrist injury that kept her out of October’s WTA Finals.
The 27-year-old’s absence at the season-opening Grand Slam will come as a blow following a career-best season which earned her a top-ten ranking spot.
The world No. 8 lost to top-rank player Iga Swiatek at the French Open in June - her first Grand Slam final - before she went on a run to the US Open semi-finals.
Muchova picked up the niggling injury at the Flushing Meadows tournament which has since caused her trouble in her right wrist.
The Czech Republican confirmed the news of her withdrawal on social media.
"This isn't my favourite thing to share especially at the start of a new season,” she wrote on Instagram. “But unfortunately the pain in the wrist came back in the middle of my preparation.
"I therefore have to postpone the start of the season and fully heal my wrist first. It's frustrating but I have to keep positive, recover and get ready for the rest of the year."
After her US Open last-four defeat to eventual winner Coco Gauff, Muchova pulled out of events in Tokyo and Beijing in a bid to recover in time for the WTA Finals in Cancun - her first scheduled appearance at the end-of-year event.
But the tournament would come too soon for Muchova, who was replaced by Maria Sakkari.
It will be the second time in three years that Muchova has missed the Australian Open, after also sitting out of the Grand Slam in 2022.
She reached the semi-finals in 2021 where she lost out to American Jennifer Brady, who was consequently beaten in the final by Naomi Osaka.
Following her absence the following year, Muchova only made it to the second round earlier in 2023 where she was beaten 7-6 2-6 6-7 by Danielle Collins.
The Australian Open gets underway on Sunday, January 14.
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