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Swiatek has won the French Open successful 2020 and 2022World fig 1 Iga Swiatek is optimistic a thigh wounded volition not forestall her from attempting to support her French Open title.
The 21-year-old was forced to discontinue from her Italian Open quarter-final against Elena Rybakina with the contented connected Wednesday.
"We did an introspection with the physio afterwards," said Swiatek.
"It shouldn't beryllium thing serious, truthful I'm beauteous affirmative that I'll beryllium backmost soon."
The three-time large victor needed attraction earlier retiring astatine 2-6 7-6 (7-3) 2-2 against Kazakhstan's Rybakina.
Swiatek was successful tears arsenic she near the tribunal for a aesculapian timeout during the second-set tie-break and returned with strapping connected her close thigh.
The Polish subordinate won the erstwhile 2 Italian Opens and was connected a 14-match winning streak successful Rome.
"For definite I consciousness tired. I deliberation it was the close determination to halt playing due to the fact that I felt symptom erstwhile I was stretching, erstwhile I did harder movements," she added.
"For me, the astir important happening is to play it harmless and not exploit my assemblage truthful overmuch successful specified hard conditions, aft having to play a fewer matches successful nighttime sessions and aft midnight.
"I'm blessed close present to person fewer days disconnected due to the fact that since [a erstwhile tourney in] Stuttgart I wasn't truly capable to retrieve with that choky docket that we person connected the WTA."
The French Open astatine Roland Garros begins connected 28 May.
In a connection connected societal media connected Thursday, Swiatek wrote: "A mates of days disconnected for sure. And booking my formation to Paris, truthful fingers crossed, please."
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