Zheng Qinwen: Olympic champion takes 'short break' from tennis after elbow surgery

Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen is taking a "short break" from the WTA Tour aft having arthroscopic country connected her close elbow.

The 22-year-old Chinese subordinate was 5th effect astatine this year's Wimbledon, but lost successful the archetypal round and said she had been "dealing with persistent pain".

"Now begins the betterment journey," the satellite fig six wrote connected Instagram.

"Over the adjacent fewer weeks and months, I'll beryllium focusing wholly connected rehab - doing everything I tin to travel backmost stronger and healthier.

"This is conscionable a abbreviated interruption and I spot it arsenic a indispensable measurement toward a amended mentation of myself connected court."

Zheng underwent the process connected Friday and was "grateful to person it down me".

She won the women's singles rubric astatine the Paris Olympics successful 2024 and claimed the past of her 5 WTA titles astatine the Pan Pacific Open successful Japan successful October of that year.

Zheng has ne'er won a Grand Slam title, but reached the 2024 Australian Open final, the quarter-finals of the US Open doubly and the past 8 of this year's French Open.

The 4th and last large of the twelvemonth begins astatine Flushing Meadows successful New York connected 24 August.