Venus to return next month in Rome
大威退出家庭圈杯後 目前預定在下個月的羅馬女網賽復出 不過可能還有變數
大威也向經紀人表示沒有太大的問題
為了能在接下來的三大滿貫和北京奧運取得好成績
這個月或許是最好的休息時機 以便確認自己的身體狀況
如果情況允許 甚至下週末就可以恢復練球
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wimbledon champion Venus Williams will miss another
tournament next week in Charleston, South Carolina as she undergoes tests for
a medical issue that her agent said on Wednesday wasn't serious.
The six-time major champion and former No. 1 plans to return to the WTA Tour
at next month's Italian Open, then participate in the year's remaining Grand
Slams.
"This is not a hiatus. This is not a break from the tour," her agent, Carlos
Fleming, said in a telephone interview. "This was a limited window where she
could get these evaluations before the three major tournaments and Olympics
this summer."
Williams, currently ranked No. 6, already was sitting out this week's
tournament at Amelia Island, Florida and she withdrew from Charleston on
Wednesday. She did not cite an injury in pulling out of those events, and is
making off-court appearances at both.
Williams played last week at Key Biscayne, Florida, reaching the
quarterfinals before losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova in straight sets.
"Venus has assured me that there's no serious medical problem," Fleming said.
"But she did see this timing as a good opportunity to have these evaluations
to make sure that her health is in order."
Neither Williams, who spoke to reporters at Amelia Island on Tuesday, nor
Fleming would go into specifics about the nature of the medical issue.
After Williams lost to eventual champion Justine Henin in the U.S. Open
semifinals in September, her mother and coach, Oracene Price, said Williams
was taking medicine for anemia. Price said at the time that her daughter
learned she had the condition after winning Wimbledon in July.
Fleming said Williams expects to be back on the court practicing sometime by
the end of next week and fully intends to compete in the French Open,
Wimbledon and U.S. Open -- as well as the Beijing Olympics, where she aims to
play in singles and in doubles with her younger sister Serena.
But Fleming said that an "ambitious" travel schedule so far in 2008,
including stops in Doha, Qatar; Bangalore, India; and Melbourne, Australia,
made the 27-year-old Williams want to "make sure that her health was 100
percent on track."
The Italian Open in Rome starts on May 12. It is one of the key tuneup
tournaments on clay ahead of the French Open, which begins on May 25.
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