Tennis-Barty comes in cold to Wimbledon after hip problem

[ASFN Admin]

World number one Ash Barty is favourite to win her first Wimbledon title next week but will need to overcome a lack of match practice on grass and a worrying string of injuries in the lead-up to the Grand Slam. The Australian's French Open was derailed by an acute hip problem suffered in training and which forced her to retire in the second round against Magda Linette. The "completely new injury" to her left hip, as Barty termed it, followed a flare-up of a recurring muscle strain in her serving arm which forced her to retire from the quarter-finals of the Italian Open.

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