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(Reuters) - Wimbledon third seed Aryna Sabalenka said she was not fully ready for Monday's first-round clash with Emina Bektas at the championships as the two-time Australian Open champion continues to struggle with a rare shoulder injury. Sabalenka, who also suffered a lower back injury earlier this year and was down with a sickness during the French Open earlier this month, said her health was a reason she had chosen not to play in next month's Paris Olympics. "No, I'm not 100% fit now.
We are doing everything we can with my team to make sure I'll be able to play my first match here, but, no, I'm not 100% ready," Sabalenka told reporters on Saturday. "It (the muscle) is teres major..
. it's really a specific injury, and it's really a rare one. Probably I'm just the second or the third tennis player who injured that muscle," she said.
"The most annoying thing is that I can do anything. I can practise, I can hit my groundstrokes. I'm struggling with serving.
That's really annoying. You don't feel like you're injured..
. but if you tell me to serve, I'm going to go through pain. "Recently I've been struggling with a lot of things health-wise, injury-wise.
My body is kind of, like, showing that I have to take care of myself," she said. "Yeah, I just decided to sacrifice Olympics for my career, for my health actually." But the Belarusian, who reached the semi-finals last year, said she had not given up on Wimbledon yet.
"We did an MRI, we did everything. We did a lot of rehab, a l.
