Australian Open 2016 Live Buzz : Serena Williams has pulled back from a warm-up competition before the current month's Australian Open 2016 on account of damage concerns. World number one Williams resigned with a knee damage when trailing Australia's Jarmila Wolfe 7-5 2-1 in the Hopman Cup on Tuesday. She had been because of play in the United States' last match of the round-robin competition on Thursday.
Maria Sharapova has pulled back from the Brisbane Universal this week.
The five-time Grand Slam champ resigned with an arm harm, while world number two Simona Halep hauled out with an aroused Achilles and world number three Garbine Muguruza quit the competition with a foot damage.
The Australian Open 2016 starts on 18 January.
Williams, who additionally missed the United States' opening Hopman Container tie on Monday, will be supplanted by Vicky Duval against the Czech Republic.
The 34-year-old, who will endeavor to hold her title in Melbourne, has a repeat of an issue that sidelined her for a great part of the last some portion of 2015.
She prepared quickly on Tuesday and took to the court against Wolfe, however showed up extremely limited in her development, particularly on her cleared out side.
Williams served for the first set, however was broken by Wolfe, who then took the set 7-5.
At the point when Wolfe broke her again for a 2-1 lead in the second set, Williams required the mentor and resigned after a brief dialog.
Russian Sharapova, world number four, was planning to safeguard her title in Brisbane in what was her just booked occasion before the Australian Open.
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The five-time Grand Slam champ resigned with an arm harm, while world number two Simona Halep hauled out with an aroused Achilles and world number three Garbine Muguruza quit the competition with a foot damage.
The Australian Open 2016 starts on 18 January.
Williams, who additionally missed the United States' opening Hopman Container tie on Monday, will be supplanted by Vicky Duval against the Czech Republic.
The 34-year-old, who will endeavor to hold her title in Melbourne, has a repeat of an issue that sidelined her for a great part of the last some portion of 2015.
She prepared quickly on Tuesday and took to the court against Wolfe, however showed up extremely limited in her development, particularly on her cleared out side.
Williams served for the first set, however was broken by Wolfe, who then took the set 7-5.
At the point when Wolfe broke her again for a 2-1 lead in the second set, Williams required the mentor and resigned after a brief dialog.
Russian Sharapova, world number four, was planning to safeguard her title in Brisbane in what was her just booked occasion before the Australian Open.
Serena Withdraws From Hopman Cup
The world number one missed the first match of the round-robin competition and after that resigned amid the second arrangement of her conflict against Australia's Jarmila Wolfe on Tuesday.
Williams uncovered she was battling with irritation of her cleared out knee yet did not promptly preclude herself of Thursday's conflict with the Czech Republic.
On the other hand, the competition declared on its Twitter channel on Wednesday that Williams had surely pulled back and would be supplanted by Vicky Duval.
The harm must be a sympathy toward Williams with under two weeks to go until she starts the resistance of her Australian Open title.
The 34-year-old conveyed an early end to her 2015 season partly in light of agony in her knees subsequent to seeing her Grand Slam dreams finished by Roberta Vinci in the US Open semi-finals.
In the interim, Germany won their first match of the opposition with a 2-1 triumph against France. Caroline Garcia crushed Sabine Lisicki yet adolescent Alexander Zverev pulled Germany level with triumph over Kenny De Schepper and the German duo won the pairs.