Canadian Milos Raonic withdraws from Australian Open due to heel injury Tennis news

MELBOURNE: Canadian Milos Raonic has pulled out of the Australian Open next month as the former world’s third player continues to recover from a heel injury, organizers said on Saturday.
Raonic suffered a thigh injury in March and returned to tour after a three-month hiatus. But his 2021 season was cut off due to a second heel problem that followed his first-round loss at the Atlanta Open in July.
“Milos Raonic has withdrawn from #AusOpen as he continues to recover from an Achilles injury,” the organizers of the Grand Slam tournament said on Twitter.

Raonic, who turns 31 on Monday, reached the third highest list in his world in 2016 – in 2016, when he reached the Wimbledon finals and ran the semi-finals. Melbourne Park.
The Canadian, who has dropped to 70th place, has recently been eliminated in the Australian Open, and Roger Federer, Stan Wawrinka, Jennifer Brady, Karolina Pliskova, Karolina Muchova, Serena Williams and Bianca Andreescu have also been injured.