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06/12 10:55 CDT Serena Williams' doubles partner Victoria Mboko to miss
Wimbledon with knee injury
Serena Williams' doubles partner Victoria Mboko to miss Wimbledon with knee
injury
LONDON (AP) --- Rising star Victoria Mboko will miss Wimbledon because of a
knee injury sustained during a match this week at Queen's Club, where the
Canadian teenager was in the spotlight as the doubles partner of Serena
Williams.
The 19-year-old Mboko, who is ranked No. 9, slipped and appeared to strain her
knee during a match against Karolina Pliskova at the HSBC Championships. She
retired from the match and later pulled out of the doubles event.
"Unfortunately, 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," Mboko wrote on Instagram.
Williams and Mboko had won their opening doubles match Tuesday --- in the
44-year-old Williams' first professional match since the 2022 U.S. Open.
While trying to return a shot in the second set against Pliskova, Mboko slipped
behind the baseline and immediately grabbed her left knee. She told a
physiotherapist there was "no stability" in it.
In her Wimbledon debut last year, Mboko reached the second round where she lost
to Hailey Baptiste.
Mboko gave a special thanks Friday to Williams "for giving me this incredible
opportunity to play alongside you. I 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."
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AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis
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