Andy Roddick and Aryna Sabalenka shared a funny moment after the American tennis legend funnily told the Belarusian that she ruined his Wimbledon prediction because he picked her as the winner but then she withdrew from the tournament.
After successfully defending her Australian Open title at the start of the year and making a couple of deep runs during the clay season, the new world No. 1 was widely expected to be among the top favorites for the Wimbledon title because she was in form and it was a surface that perfectly suited her game.
But then, the 26-year-old sustained a shoulder injury during her Berlin round-of-16 match against Anna Kalinskaya. Even though Sabalenka retired from that match, the expectations was that she would not be forced to miss Wimbledon.
And after the Belarusian arrived to The Championships, it definitely looked like she was ready to play. However, the optimism surrounding that quickly changed after she revealed in her pre-tournament presser that she was dealing with “a rare shoulder injury called teres major” and that she may pull out of the tournament. Exactly that happened.
With that happening, Roddick’s prediction of Sabalenka facing American Jessica Pegula in the Wimbledon final instantly became a wrong one.
“I have Sabalenka beating…
