{"id":484300,"date":"2024-06-17T10:11:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T14:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484300"},"modified":"2024-06-17T08:44:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T12:44:14","slug":"sabalenka-skips-paris-olympics-to-focus-on-mental-and-physical-health","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/sabalenka-skips-paris-olympics-to-focus-on-mental-and-physical-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabalenka skips Paris Olympics to focus on mental and physical health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World number three Aryna Sabalenka has decided not to participate in the Paris Olympics to focus on her health and prepare for the upcoming hardcourt tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Belarusian, who won the Australian Open earlier this year, was recently eliminated by 17-year-old Russian Mirra Andreeva in the quarter-finals of the French Open.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka explained her decision at the Berlin Ladies Open, stating, &#8220;Especially with all the struggles I&#8217;ve been struggling with the last months, I feel I have to take care of my health. It&#8217;s too much for the scheduling and I made the decision to take care of my health. I prefer to have a little rest to make sure physically and health-wise I&#8217;m ready for the hard courts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Aryna Sabalenka says she will not play the Olympics this year:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to play Olympics because of all the rules from WTA with mandatory tournaments. I have to sacrifice something. Unfortunately I have to sacrifice Olympics. At this stage of my career and especially with\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LEE3eiIlYg\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LEE3eiIlYg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1802671619200151914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka is scheduled to play against Russian Daria Kasatkina in the last 16 in Berlin. The Paris Olympics are set to take place from July 26 to August 11. Sabalenka&#8217;s decision highlights the importance she places on managing her health and performance in preparation for the demanding hardcourt season ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World number three Aryna Sabalenka has decided not to participate in the Paris Olympics to focus on her health and prepare for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":484301,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,17471],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[18357,18334],"acf":{"announce":"The world No. 3 is going to use her time off to prepare for the hardcourt tournaments ","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484302,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484300\/revisions\/484302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484300"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484300"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}