Maria Sharapova will sit out the United States Open because of an injured right shoulder, the first major championship she will miss since she played in her first Grand Slam event in 2003.
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Maria Sharapova withdrew from the Rogers Open in Montreal after her second-round victory Wednesday because of a shoulder injury.
The 21-year-old Sharapova had already announced that she was pulling out of the Beijing Olympics because of the injury. Sharapova said in a posting on her Web site Friday that she probably would not need surgery and could be ready to play in two to three months. The Open begins Aug. 25.
“It hurts me so much to miss the Olympics and the U.S. Open, you have no idea,” she said. “Just to type those words hurt!!”
The No. 3-ranked Sharapova has played in each of the past 23 major championships, winning titles at Wimbledon in 2004, the United States Open in 2006 and the Australian Open in January.
Sharapova said a doctor who looked at tests on her shoulder from April and this week told her that she had been playing with a torn rotator cuff tendon since the spring.
“He actually couldn’t believe that I’ve been playing this long with this injury,” Sharapova said. “You can imagine that I was not very thrilled to hear that my medical team did not see this tear in my shoulder back in April.”
Sharapova said she would go to Arizona to work with a specialist for rehabilitation and strength work. She pulled out of the WTA tournament in Montreal on Wednesday night after winning a nearly three-hour match in which she double-faulted 17 times.
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