Change of program for Garcia?



Freshly married, Caroline Garcia (31 years old) will end her career after the US Open. Previously, the Lyonnaise hopes to play the cincinnati tournament (WTA 1000), which she won in 2022. It will be held on if the organizers reserve an invitation or not.

One last outing before her farewell in New York for Caroline Garcia (31 years old)? The next US Open (August 24 to September 7) will mark the farewells of Lyonnaise, who decided to retire at the end of this meeting in which she will participate for the twelfth time of her career and of which she has reached the knockout stages twice (in 2017 and 2022), her best result at Flushing Meadows.

Today 199th in the ranking, the ex-numéro 1 French and former world number 4 at the height of his career was awarded a Wild Card (reciprocity, from the American tennis federation) to be able to defend its chances during the last major of the season. Garcia, freshly married to his Spanish companion Borja Duran, hopes that the organizers of the Cincinnati tournament will also reserve an invitation to him.

Garcia must wait for an invitation …

Before playing the US Open for the last time in his life and then definitively hanging on his racket, the protégé of Bertrand Perret, who trains again with the one she qualified on Thursday on the social networks of “favorite” coach, thus intends to participate, also for the last time, at the WTA 1000 of the Ohio (which will take place from August 7 to 18) where she was titled in 2022 before winning the Masters, With the passage of successes against Maria Sakkari, Jessica Pegula, Petra Kvitova and Aryna Sabalenka, the current world number 1.

“I am preparing for cincinnati,” Garcia wrote on Instagram on Thursday, without specifying if she was invited for the tournament, she who does not yet appear to date in the list of incoming. Released from the entrance to Roland-Garros on May 26 by the American Bernarda Pera for her farewell at the Paris tournament, the native of Saint-Germain en Laye has not replayed since this defeat.

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