Huelva, Dec 10 (Agency) Three-time world champion, Carolina Marin of Spain on Friday pulled out of upcoming BWF World Championships as she has not fully recovered from a knee injury. The showpiece event is going to take place from December 12 to 19 in Huelva, Spain. The Rio Olympic champion shared a video on her twitter saying, ‘I was having a really good season start; I had won four tournaments out of five. I was feeling very confident, strong and in a really good physical and psychological condition until just one bad movement broke my knee completely,’ She further added, ‘Mentally it has been really hard to keep myself up; my priorities have been always health and well being.Therefore my team and myself have decided not to play the Huelva World Championship.’ “We have also taken the decision of not having a formal date of comeback to competitions until we are 100 % sure that my knee is fully recovered.
So we will be evaluating slowly my knee’s progress and the sensations. I am daily having it, so we believe I might be officially playing again in the month of February and March,” she concluded. Marin sustained a knee injury during 2019 Indonesia Masters finals, as a result of which she missed the World Championship the same year. She showcased a stunning comeback and went on to win back-to back titles in 2021; Two Thailand Open and Swiss Open title. With Marin pulling out of the mega event, the list of players who have withdrawn from the BWF Worlds has has furthur lengthened; as the Indonesian contingent earlier announced their withdrawal due to rising threat of the Covid-19 Omicron variant. World no.2 Kento Momota of Japan decided to skip the tournament citing a back injury. The Rio Olympics silver medalist men’s doubles pair of Chan Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying of Malaysia too pulled out after splitting their 13-year partnership.