Aryna Sabalenka shared some concerning news during her pre-tournament press conference at Wimbledon as the Belarusian tennis star contracted a rare shoulder injury that has left her in a spot where she doesn’t know what to expect and even not knowing if she will be able to play.
On June 20th, Sabalenka kicked off her grass season with a routine 6-1 6-4 win over Daria Kasatkina and everything looked fine during the match. But in her next match, the two-time Grand Slam champion found herself 1-5 down to Anna Kalinskaya before retiring due to shoulder pain and discomfort.
Initially, the hope was that it wasn’t anything serious but that Sabalenka retired simply because she didn’t want to risk anything before Wimbledon. But on Saturday, Sabalenka revealed that the diagnosis was not the one she wanted to hear. Explaining her injury, the current world No. 3 pretty much explained it as a weird injury that allows her to do anything on the court but serve without feeling some pain or discomfort.
“It’s teres major. Like, shoulder. For someone who doesn’t speak very well English, I call it just shoulder injury. It’s really a specific injury, and it’s really a rare one. Probably I’m just the second or the third tennis player who injured that muscle,”…
