Headlines of the WTA 250 from Rouen, the French Alizé Cornet and Caroline Garcia declared for the Norman tournament, which started this Monday. Released from his retirement two weeks ago, the first had to find the French public on this occasion.
The French people Alizé Cornet and Caroline Garcia, two of the headliners of the Rouen WTA 250 tournament on clay, which started on Monday, had to declare injury.
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Wounded during the Billie Jean King Cup
“It is with a great disappointment that I unfortunately have to withdraw from the tournament” of Rouen, first wrote Cornet on his Instagram account. Released two weeks ago from her sports retirement, at 35, she had benefited from an invitation (Wild Card) to integrate the table.
“I made a lesion to the right triceps during my simple Billie Jean King Cup and that will require rest and care,” she explained in her message. After spending two laps then had to abandon the Bisbal of Emporda WTA 125 tournament, in Spain, she participated in the disappointing campaign of the French team which failed to go up in the elite in Billie Jean King Cup, last week in Vilnius (Lithuania).
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Aligned mainly in double, where she won her two games, Cornet had to replace Clara Burel, injured, in simple for the decisive dam against Belgium. The player, falling back into 460th in the world, had clearly lost in front of the Belgian Jeline Vandromme, 17 years and 758th (6-3, 6-3), a match where she appeared physically borrowed and had asked for the intervention of the physiotherapist between the two sets.
Garcia not handing over back pain
A little later, it was Caroline Garcia, former world number 4 but who pointed to 99th in the last WTA ranking, who threw the sponge due to back pain that had already prevented her from playing with France in Lithuania.
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“All last week, I tried to recover as much as possible from what I could. Unfortunately, it’s too short to be able to play here in Rouen,” she said in an audio message transmitted by the organization of the tournament. In the early afternoon, she had held a press briefing, confessing not even being 80% of her potential.
Semi-finalist in Rouen last year, she was trying at the end of the afternoon but conceded feeling “too many pain on the service. I hope to be able to recover as quickly as possible and be ready for the next tournaments,” she said in her message.
