BERLIN: Simona Halep’s Wimbledon hopes suffered a blow Friday when she withdrew from the semi-finals of the WTA tournament in Bad Homburg with a neck injury.

Halep, the 2019 Wimbledon champion, was forced out of the grass-court tournament in Germany on the eve of Wimbledon, which starts Monday.

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With Romania’s Halep sidelined, her Canadian opponent Bianca Andreescu progresses to the Bad Homburg final on Saturday, the WTA said in a brief statement, where she will face either France’s Alize Cornet or Caroline Garcia.