The fourth racket of the world Elena Rybakina refused to continue her performance at the French Open tennis championship. The 23-year-old Moscow native, who has been playing for Kazakhstan since 2018, withdrew from Roland Garros before the third round match against Sara Sorribes-Tormo.
As the tennis player herself stated, the day before she felt unwell. She started to have a fever. My head started to hurt. The situation only worsened over the next few days. During a visit to the doctor, she was told that she most likely had a virus that was walking around Paris.
“It’s hard for me to perform, run, even just breathe. I can’t be on the court for more than 10 minutes. After the second fight, I suddenly became ill. Of course, I have medicine and I drank everything I could when my health worsened. But my body needs time. In addition, I played a lot. Now I need a few days of rest, “Rybakina said at a press conference.
Recall that in July last year in the finals of Wimbledon Elena beat the representative of Tunisia Uns Zhaber – 3:6, 6:2, 6:2.
After that, the president of the Russian Tennis Federation (RTF), Shamil Tarpishchev, said that Rybakina’s victory in London is a merit of Russia.
In response, the Kazakh federation actually accused the functionary of fascism.
Rybakina herself also responded to the pro-Putin functionary, stating that she does not consider herself “a product of the Russian school of tennis.”
Source: Obozrevatel
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