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For Julia Grabher, the hope of a place in the knockout stages of the WTA tennis tournament in Linz ended early on Tuesday. The 24-year-old from Vorarlberg had to surrender in the Upper Austrian Ladies’ first-round match with Romanian Sorana Cirstea with a 3: 2 lead due to an ankle injury. With Barbara Haas, only one ÖTV player represented in the competition, on Wednesday she will face Russian number five seed Veronika Kudermetowa.
Grabher got off to a good start in the opening match with Cirstea and took his opponent’s serve. He kept this break until the unwanted early end of the game. “I started very well and also felt good. At 3-2 I changed direction and felt a click in my right ankle,” said the number two from Austria. A medical break did not bring the expected improvement.
He tried to serve again, but couldn’t continue. “Then I couldn’t pull the trigger,” Grabher said.
There is still no more precise diagnosis. “With a short-term scan, nothing was seen because the injury is too recent,” says Grabher. On Wednesday, an MRI exam in Vienna should provide information on the severity of the ankle joint injury. The world number 225, who had already failed in the first double round with her compatriot Mira Antonitsch on Monday, was able to try her luck in the main competition of the home event thanks to a wild card.
Haas will start the singles in the third game on Wednesday after 12 pm, and the TipsArena will not be played before 4 pm It is their sixth attempt to survive the first round for the first time. In doubles, the end came at the beginning. After losing the first set to Jil Teichmann / Renata Voracova (SUI / CZE), her Swiss teammate Xenia Knoll had to give up due to a severe stomach ache. Last year, the duo was in the final in Linz.
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