2023 has not started well for Garbiñe Muguruza. The tennis player is experiencing a crisis of results —four defeats in four games— that have led her to make the decision to stop. Hours before the Abu Dhabi tournament, she announced that she would not participate "for personal reasons", and that she would not participate in Doha and Dubai either.
Now the Spanish-Venezuelan has announced that she will not be at the WTA Masters 1000 in Indian Wells and Miami. “I will be taking a break from racing for the next few weeks. I will continue working with my team to get back to my level of tennis and feel ready to compete again”, she explained.
Added to this decision is the fact that next Monday, Muguruza will be out of the top 100 of the world ranking for the first time in 10 years. At the moment she is ranked 87th, but his losing streak will condemn him to being left out of the 100 best players in the world.
Between 2022 and 2023, the one from Caracas has only managed to chain two consecutive victories: in the past US Open (it fell in the third round) and in the WTA 500 in Doha (it was planted in the quarterfinals).
A year ago, Muguruza was ninth in the world ranking after proclaiming herself the winner of the 2021 WTA Finals. In seven days, however, she will drop to 125th place, as she will lose the points from her participation in the Dubai tournament. of 2022, where he reached the second round.
The last time the tennis player was out of the top 100 was in 2013, when she was barely 19 years old and had not yet developed her full potential. It is currently unknown which tournament she will reappear in, and although her position in the rankings is not optimal, she is guaranteed invites to all non-mandatory tournaments per the 'top20 wild card' rule. This rule indicates that the first 20 who have not signed up, the winners of 'Grand Slam', Masters champions or former numbers one are entitled to two of the places in the main draw.
