Aryna Sabalenka has delayed the beginning of her clay season as she has withdrawn from subsequent week’s Charleston match. Sabalenka, ranked at No 2 on this planet, was scheduled to spotlight this 12 months’s Charleston participant subject.

However Sabalenka suffered a hamstring damage on the Miami Open and now wants time to heal. “Unhappy to announce that I’ve to withdraw from Charleston! I picked up an damage throughout one in every of my matches in Miami and I want time to relaxation and heal.

I’m so sorry to the match and the followers. I used to be actually wanting ahead to being again and taking part in in entrance of you all,” Sabalenka tweeted.

Unhappy to announce that I’ve to withdraw from Charleston! I picked up an damage throughout one in every of my matches in Miami and I want time to relaxation and heal.

I’m so sorry to the match and the followers. I used to be actually wanting ahead to being again and taking part in in entrance of you all! Saby😘🫶 — Sabalenka Aryna (@SabalenkaA) March 30, 2023

Sabalenka hopes to do nicely throughout the clay season

Sabalenka has had a fantastic begin to the 2023 season as she grew to become a Grand Slam champion on the Australian Open and in addition made the ultimate at a WTA 1000 match in Indian Wells.

In Miami, Sabalenka made the quarterfinal earlier than struggling a shock defeat to Sorana Cirstea. After doing nicely on the laborious courts, Sabalenka is aiming to proceed her nice throughout the clay season. “The important thing could be simply to give attention to myself, do not take into consideration social media, do not take into consideration the folks, expectations.

Simply give attention to myself. Simply do my factor, and I imagine that if I will play on the identical stage and even higher, wins will come. I simply must hold working laborious and hold shifting ahead. There have been some powerful classes within the first a part of the season.

I am going to simply study, reset, and begin working once more from the start. I am going to do my greatest to verify I convey my greatest tennis on the clay courtroom season,” Sabalenka mentioned after her Miami exit. Sabalenka is now scheduled to begin her clay season in Stuttgart. The Stuttgart occasion is beginning on April seventeenth.