Garbiñe Muguruza’s fall seems unstoppable. In a little over a year, it will move out of the top 120 from the ‘top 10’ in the world rankings next Monday. One of his greatest achievements, along with Roland Garros (2016) and Wimbledon (2017), is the 2021 WTA Finals champion, the 29-year-old tennis player passes. worst sports crisis he’s ever had before he can find a solution to his problems and announced that he will leave the circuit for a few months.

muguruza alleged “personal problems” Giving up playing in the Abu Dhabi tournament a few weeks ago, hours before they took the field against the Czech Karolina Pliskova and was later deleted from his Middle East tour, where he was invited to participate in tournaments in Doha and Dubai that started this Monday.

Now the Spanish-Venezuelan tennis player has also given up on the Masters 1,000 at Indian Wells and Miami, where he had to play in the previous stage. “I will be taking a break from racing for the next few weeks. I will continue to work with my team to get back to my tennis level and feel ready to compete again,” he said. muguruza In the Marca newspaper.

muguruza It has only 12 victories in the 2022 season and has not won any of the four games it played in it, falling from the 9th place it occupied in 2022 to the 87th place in the world at the same time.

complex turn

The Spanish tennis player, who became world No. 1 in September 2017 and won 10 WTA titles in his career, does not feel like he is in a position to compete at the highest level and has mentally chosen to leave the track and return to the field. European season where you can get invitations by rule “top 20 wild cards”, Indicates that Grand Slam winners, champions of the WTA Finals, or former world number one receive two of the invitations in the main draw of all tournaments except the Masters 1,000 or Grand Slams.

It is a possibility that will allow him to seek the necessary spots to improve his classification and reach Roland Garros, which will be his vital goal after ten years among the best in the world, at a time when his career’s future is at stake. World.