Carolina Marin pulls out of World Championships

Three-time champion shuttler Carolina Marin’s return to competitive action was further delayed as she withdrew from the World Championships after failing to regain fitness following a knee injury.

The Rio Olympic gold medalist had pulled out of the All England Championships this year after suffering an injury during the Swiss Open. The 28-year-old had announced his plans to return to the domestic world championships starting in Huelva, Spain.

Marin said, “I was off to a really good start, I had won four out of five tournaments. I felt very confident, strong and in really good physical and psychological condition, until just one bad movement took off.” Didn’t completely break my knee.” The video has been posted on his Twitter handle.

“It has been really hard to sustain myself mentally, my priority has always been health and well being. That’s why my team and I have decided not to play the Huelva World Championship.”

Marin, considered one of the most dominant players in international badminton, said she might return in February next year but would not like to reveal the date of her return.

“We have also decided not to have a formal date of return to competitions until we are 100% sure that my knee has fully healed. So we will gradually evaluate the progress and sensations of the knee. I Doing it daily, so we are confident that I can officially play again in the months of February and March.”

Marin, who missed the Tokyo Olympics, suffered a knee injury in the Indonesia Masters final in January 2019 and missed the World Championships that year, while India’s PV Sindhu claimed her maiden title.

The Spaniard made a comeback at the Vietnam Open in September 2019 and was runner-up in that year’s China Open, the Syed Modi tournament and the French Open.

After a second-best performance at the Indonesia Masters, Spain Masters and Denmark Open in 2020, Marin returned to Thailand to claim back-to-back titles and finished last in the season-ending World Tour finals in Bangkok.

She also won the Swiss Open by defeating Sindhu in the final, besides claiming the European Championships in April.

Marin’s return means the list of top players to be ruled out of the tournament has only gotten longer as two-time gold medalist Kento Momota of Japan withdrew after suffering a back injury at the World Tour Finals in Bali, Indonesia. Had taken.

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In women’s singles, 2017 World Championships gold medalist Nozomi Okuhara has also withdrawn, while the Indonesian contingent has also decided to skip the event due to concerns over the new COVID-19 variant spreading to European countries.