Coco Vandeweghe was back at Wimbledon with on Wednesday after a serious fall on her walk to the tournament sent her to hospital and left her with facial injuries. She said the accident happened last Tuesday and that she is now healing well.
The 34-year-old said she bit through her lip, fractured her chin and chipped her two front teeth. In an Instagram update, she wrote that her stitches are out and that she had already gotten her new teeth a couple of days before Wednesday, a quick turnaround that put her back courtside while Wimbledon was still underway.
That return matters because Vandeweghe was not describing a minor scrape. She posted a photo of herself being wheeled away on a gurney, another from an ambulance with a swollen mouth and chin, and later a picture from a dentist's chair before showing herself courtside with a microphone in hand. For a former player now doing match analysis with 's on-air team, the sequence turned a frightening fall into a rapid return to work.
Vandeweghe said the experience was scary, but she also made clear how quickly the pieces came together around her. She thanked her friend Elena for being with her when she called for help, her mom and fiancé Daniel for flying to London, her family for checking in, and the surgeons, doctors, nurses and hospital staff who, in her words, put her back together again.
The latest update leaves one thing settled and one thing open. She is back at work, and the immediate recovery appears to be moving in the right direction. What still is not public is what caused the fall in the first place, only that it happened on the walk to Wimbledon and was serious enough to require hospital treatment before she could return to the event.
Vandeweghe's Wimbledon week has already become a reminder of how quickly a routine trip can turn into a hospital stay, even for someone who knows the event well. She reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals in 2015 and 2017, won the US Open women's doubles title alongside Ash Barty in 2018 and retired from professional tennis in 2023 after injuries had already worn heavily on her career.
