2022 Australian Open: Serena Williams unable to play due to injury

After Serena Williams’s name was not on the 2022 Australian Open, the 23-time Grand Slam winner confirmed that she will not participate in next month’s competition. According to the official website of the Australian Open, Williams stated that she would not participate in the Grand Slam tournament, but would “follow the advice of her medical team.”

Williams is still dealing with the hamstring injury she suffered in the first round at Wimbledon in July.

“Although this has never been an easy decision to make, I am not a place where I need to physically compete,” Williams Tell the Australian Open website“Melbourne is one of my favorite cities to go to, and I look forward to playing in AO every year. I will miss the fans, but I am very happy to be back for my highest level of competition.”

Williams has achieved great success at the Australian Open in the past. The 40-year-old won the last Grand Slam championship of her career at the 2017 Australian Open and won a total of seven championships.

In the 2021 Australian Open, Williams reached the semifinals all the way, and then lost to Naomi Osaka in two straight sets.

Williams is not the first high-profile female tennis star to miss the game. On Monday, Bianca Andreescu, who won the 2019 U.S. Open, Announcing that she is taking a break from the sport He will miss the start of the 2022 season, including the Australian Open.