Garbine Muguruza admits that she is “tired” of feeling injured all the time after the Spaniard was forced to retire from her opening match in Dubai on Tuesday with an Achilles problem.
This is the second time in four tournaments contested this season that Muguruza abandoned a match, having also retired against Alize Cornet during the Brisbane semi-finals early last month with an adductor issue.
Muguruza came to Dubai after losing in the last-16 in Doha to Zhang Shuai on a rainy day where she had to play twice due to the weather-affected schedule in the Qatari capital.
The No5 seed had a bye in the first round in the Emirates and halted her match while down 1-4 against Kateryna Bondarenko on Tuesday.
“When I finished in Doha, that day that I – because of the rain, a lot of people played two matches, including me. The second one was very tough, and I remember that as soon as I went, after the match, to my room, I started to have a pain in my left Achilles,” Muguruza told reporters in Dubai.
“The next morning was even more painful. I have carried this since that day. And here, I have been training but on and off, honestly, because of the pain. Some days it was a little bit better, some days it was a little bit worse. It was just hard for me to serve, especially, and to just move side to side today on the court.”
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