Marketa Vondrousova, the 2023 Wimbledon champion, will take a couple of months off the tennis tour due to persevering with issues along with her surgically repaired left shoulder, she wrote Thursday on social media.
“Endurance and time are my priorities proper now, however I imagine it’s going to all be price it,” Vondrousova posted. “So hopefully again on the court docket quickly.”
The 25-year-old left-hander from the Czech Republic has performed solely eight matches thus far in 2025, going 4-4, together with a second-round loss to eventual champion Mirra Andreeva at Dubai final month in Vondrousova’s most up-to-date occasion.
She hasn’t entered a Grand Slam event since a first-round loss at Wimbledon in July, sitting out the U.S. Open final September and the Australian Open this January. She additionally missed final yr’s Paris Olympics shortly earlier than having shoulder surgical procedure in August.
Her 6-4, 6-2 exit towards Jessica Bouzas Maneiro on the All England Membership made Vondrousova the primary defending girls’s champion there to lose within the first spherical the subsequent yr since 1994 – and solely the second within the sport’s Open period, which started in 1968. The one different girls’s returning champ to bow out instantly at Wimbledon was Steffi Graf.
Vondrousova was the runner-up on the French Open as a youngster in 2019, and he or she took house a silver medal from the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, earlier than her milestone championship at Wimbledon in 2023, when she grew to become the primary unseeded feminine singles title winner on the grass-court main.
However her profession repeatedly has been interrupted by accidents. In 2022, for instance, Vondrousova sat out from April to October as a result of she had two operations on her left wrist after a stress fracture left bone fragments in two completely different spots.
As soon as ranked as excessive as No. 6, she at present is No. 45.
“Stepping out of the court docket once more. I’m nonetheless combating (a) shoulder damage,” Vondrousova wrote Thursday. “Though it isn’t straightforward, I now have a couple of months of intensive coaching and rehabilitation to get my arm again collectively.”