Leg Injury Forces World No. 1 Barty Out of Dubai Championship
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Doha, March 1 (AFP/APP): World number one Ashleigh Barty will not compete at the Dubai Championships next week because of a leg injury, she said in a statement on Monday.
“Unfortunately I have withdrawn from the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships with a left leg injury,” she said in a statement published by the WTA. “I look forward to competing again in Miami in a few weeks’ time.”
Barty, who also dropped out of the Qatar Open currently underway in Doha, is the reigning champion at Miami. Unseeded American Danielle Collins sent an out-of-sorts Barty crashing out of the Adelaide International in the second round last month. Collins seized on some poor serving from the Australian to claim a convincing 6-3, 6-4 win in just 65 minutes.
It was Collins’ first win over Barty in three encounters and her first win against a current world number one.
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