The Norwegian Casper Ruud, still in delicacy with a knee, was forced this Saturday to declare forfeit for Wimbledon.
Hard blow to Casper Ruud. This Saturday, the Norwegian, now aged 26, was forced to declare for the 2025 edition of Wimbledon which will take place between Monday June 30 and Sunday July 13. An announcement made through his team. It was his manager, namely Tina Falster, who formalized the news, with the Norwegian news agency Ntb and in remarks reported by
The team : “He is back on the courts and things improve, but he is unfortunately a little too early to play matches at the best of the five sets. »»
Indeed, the former 2nd world player is currently still in delicacy with a knee. Professional since the 2015 season, the Norwegian has already, in his career, disputed a total of three finals in Grand Chelem tournaments, two in Roland-Garros in 2022 and 2023 and one at the US Open, in 2022, but never in Wimbledon. On the London lawn, Casper Ruud never even exceeded the second round.
Ruud back in mid-July?
A stage of the competition which he reached three times, in 2022, 2023 then 2024, in five participations. This year, the one who went back to 16th place in the world therefore does not feel 100% to be able to respond present. The last match played by Casper Ruud dates back to Wednesday May 28. That day, the Norwegian had been eliminated, to everyone’s surprise, by the Portuguese Nuno Borges, in four rounds (2-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-0) and 2:19 of the game, in the second round of Roland-Garros.
After this match, Ruud had then explained in particular to suffer, for a while, from an injury to the level of a knee. It is because of this that the tennis player has already been forced to give up the Mallorcan ATP 250 tournament in Spain (June 22-28). The absence of the native of Oslo, on the ATP circuit, should extend until mid-July and the Swiss Open, provided on the side of Gstaad.
