Elena Rybakina withdraws from French Open through illness
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One of the favourites for the title at Roland Garros, the 23-year-old Kazakh was set to play Spain's Sara Sorribes Tormo at 10:45 BST on Saturday."It's difficult to perform, to run and even breathe. So I think that was the only right decision I could make." Rybakina is part of the emerging 'big three' on the WTA Tour, alongside Polish world number one Iga Swiatek and Belarusian world number two Aryna Sabalenka, with the trio having won the past four Grand Slam titles between them.
"Of course I'm really upset not be able to play, but I guess that's life. There is a lot of ups and downs," said Rybakina."I was already not feeling good yesterday and the day before, so I didn't sleep two nights and had some fever.
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