Zeynep Sönmez withdrew from her Roland Garros doubles match on Tuesday after falling hard while sprinting for a ball and needing medical attention on court. She and Tatjana Maria were trailing Anhelina Kalinina and Dayana Yastremska 2-0 in the first set when the match ended with Sönmez unable to continue.
The injury brought an abrupt stop to her second-round run in Paris at the season’s second Grand Slam, the French Open, where she had been trying to keep her doubles campaign alive after already exiting singles. Earlier in the tournament, she lost to Daria Kasatkina in the first round.
Sönmez went down after running into an advertising board as she chased the ball, and the medical team treated her before she retired from the match. That sequence left Maria to absorb the loss of a partner mid-match, while the Turkish player’s immediate priority shifted from competition to recovery.
What remains unclear is how serious the injury is and whether it will affect her next tournament. For now, the only certainty is that her Paris campaign ended not with a defeat on the scoreline alone, but with a withdrawal forced by the fall that stopped her doubles match in its tracks.
