File image of Ons Jabeur of Tunisia
| Photograph Credit score: AP
Ons Jabeur, the 2022 U.S. Open girls’s runner-up, withdrew from this 12 months’s event due to a shoulder damage.
Jabeur was to be the No. 17 seed within the event that begins Monday. The U.S. Tennis Affiliation mentioned Elise Mertens, the next-highest participant eligible to be seeded, will change into the No. 33 seed.
Jabeur has struggled with accidents lately, pulling out of the hard-court event in Washington earlier than dropping to Naomi Osaka in her lone match in Montreal. She wrote in an Instagram submit Thursday that her shoulder had not recovered in time to permit her to play at Flushing Meadows.
The Tunisian additionally reached the finals of Wimbledon in 2022 and 2023.
