{"id":17276,"date":"2025-07-19T19:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/zheng-qinwen-olympic-champion-takes-short-break-from-tennis-after-elbow-surgery\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T19:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:05:06","slug":"zheng-qinwen-olympic-champion-takes-short-break-from-tennis-after-elbow-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/zheng-qinwen-olympic-champion-takes-short-break-from-tennis-after-elbow-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Zheng Qinwen: Olympic champion takes &#8216;short break&#8217; from tennis after elbow surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen is taking a &#8220;short break&#8221; from the WTA Tour after having arthroscopic surgery on her right elbow. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old Chinese player was fifth seed at this year&#8217;s Wimbledon, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c6288dn2zp4o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">lost in the first round<\/a> and said she had been &#8220;dealing with persistent pain&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Now begins the recovery journey,&#8221; the world number six wrote on Instagram. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Over the next few weeks and months, I&#8217;ll be focusing entirely on rehab &#8211; doing everything I can to come back stronger and healthier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is just a short break and I see it as a necessary step toward a better version of myself on court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zheng underwent the procedure on Friday and was &#8220;grateful to have it behind me&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cvgnyn4dnp4o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen is taking a &#8220;short break&#8221; from the WTA Tour after having arthroscopic surgery on her right elbow. The 22-year-old Chinese player was fifth seed at this year&#8217;s Wimbledon, but lost in the first round and said she had been &#8220;dealing with persistent pain&#8221;. &#8220;Now begins the recovery journey,&#8221; the world number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17278,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17276\/revisions\/17278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}