Aurélie Sacchelli, Media365, published on Sunday 04 May 2025 at 1:58 p.m.
Wounded on the back, Caroline Garcia is unable to compete in the WTA 1000 qualifications in Rome. The Frenchwoman, falling back into 117th in the world, could therefore arrive in Roland-Garros without having played the slightest match on clay this season.
Since her defeat on March 21 against Iga Swiatek in Miami, we haven’t seen Caroline Garcia again on a tennis court in competition. The 31 -year -old Lyonnaise suffers from the back and is forced to multiply the packages. At the beginning of April, she was present in Vilnius with the French team for the second division group stage, but she had not been able to play any match. In the process, she had to give up the WTA 250 tournament in Rouen, then to the WTA 1000 in Madrid. And this Sunday, it was for the WTA 1000 of Rome, of which she was to compete in qualifications, that the 117th world player announced her package. “”Unfortunately, I will not be able to play here in Rome. So sad to miss one of my favorite tournaments. I continue to work to arrive in good conditions in Paris“, writes Caroline Garcia on her social networks. The Lyonnaise had made the trip to the Italian capital and trained, but the test did not prove to be conclusive. She will not be able to defend the 65 points she had won last year while reaching the sixteenth finals (defeat against Danielle Collins). The former winner of the Masters, which was then the 23rd in the Masters, which was then tasting in the Masters, Classification, and meet around 150th place in the world at the end of the Italian tournament.
Three victories for Garcia in 2025
Caroline Garcia therefore has her ticket for the Porte d’Auteuil, but in what state will she get there? The tournament begins in three weeks, and the time trial continues for the Lyonnaise, which had been eliminated in the second round last year. If she does not compete in Paris or Parma tournaments (WTA 125 the week of May 12) or that of Strasbourg or Rabat the previous week Roland-Garros, Caroline Garcia will arrive on the Grand Chelem Parisien without having played the slightest match on clay, and even less won. After stopping her 2024 season in September to regenerate physically and mentally, the Frenchwoman has so far missed her start to the 2025 season, with three wins in nine games, and therefore this back injury. “After the break of last year, I came back happier, clearer and more motivated. The results were not yet there, but I really believed in the path I followed. This failure hurts me, but I will use it to come back stronger,” she wrote on April 18. Will she manage to reverse the trend in the coming weeks?
