Victoria Mboko has shared an update after it was revealed she had withdrawn from Wimbledon due to the injury she suffered at the Queen\u2019s Club Championships.<\/p>\n
World No 9 Mboko teamed up with tennis icon Serena Williams<\/a> in doubles at Queen\u2019s Club, and the pair won their opening match on Tuesday. It was Williams\u2019 first match since the 2022 US Open.<\/p>\n The following day, Mboko<\/a> was forced to retire in her opening singles match at the grass-court WTA 500 event against Karolina Pliskova.<\/p>\n When Pliskova was serving with a 6-2, 3-4 lead in the second set, Mboko slipped on the grass and suffered a nasty fall. She was unable to continue having injured her left knee.<\/a><\/p>\n The Canadian pulled out of the doubles event before her and Williams\u2019 scheduled second round match on Thursday.<\/p>\n On Friday, Mboko withdrew from Wimbledon, which is due to start in just over two weeks.<\/p>\n Victoria Mboko reacts as Serena Williams sends classy message after Queen\u2019s injury blow<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Wimbledon share official response regarding Serena Williams receiving a wildcard<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n In a post on Instagram, Mboko revealed she had sustained an MCL injury as she confirmed she would miss the rest of the grass season.<\/p>\n \u201cHi everyone \u2014 I wanted to provide a quick update given everything that has happened in the past 36 hours,\u201d Mboko wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cUnfortunately, my fall on Wednesday caused an injury to the MCL on my left knee, which sadly means I will miss the remainder of the grass season. This unfortunately means Wimbledon too, a tournament I had been so looking forward to playing this year.<\/p>\n \u201cI am receiving the best medical care and my team and I are focused on a return to court as soon as possible. Thank you to everyone who has reached out and sent messages of support, I am so grateful to you all!\u201d<\/p>\n The 19-year-old went on to thank Williams for the opportunity to play doubles with her.<\/p>\n \u201cLastly, thank you @serenawilliams for giving me this incredible opportunity to play alongside you,\u201d Mboko added.<\/p>\n \u201cI learnt so much from you and am so sorry our tournament came to an end prematurely, but I hope we can play together again soon and finish what we started.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Emma Raducanu \u2018really pleased\u2019 as she gets revenge with impressive Queen\u2019s Club win<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Victoria Mboko confirms concerning injury blow after withdrawing from Wimbledon<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Victoria Mboko has shared an update after it was revealed she had withdrawn from Wimbledon due to the injury she suffered at the Queen\u2019s Club Championships. World No 9 Mboko teamed up with tennis icon Serena Williams in doubles at Queen\u2019s Club, and the pair won their opening match on Tuesday. It was Williams\u2019 first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}WTA Tour News<\/h2>\n