By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday March 6, 2020
Simona Halep has elected to skip this year's BNP Paribas Open due to the foot injury that has hampered her of late.
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2015 BNP Paribas Open champion and current World No.2 Simona Halep has withdrawn from this year’s event at Indian Wells due to a foot injury.
“I'm incredibly disappointed to have to withdraw from the 2020 BNP Paribas Open. Unfortunately the foot injury that I picked up before Dubai is still causing me trouble and I will be unable to recover in time to travel to Indian Wells,” Halep said in a statement released by the tournament’s web site.
"It is without doubt one of the highlights of the tennis calendar for me and I will be really sad to miss it, but I'm already looking forward to being back in 2021,” she added.
Halep is 10-2 on the season and won her 20th career title at Dubai last month. After her victory in the final she talked about the foot injury that has bothered her for a while now.
“I started this tournament a little bit injured with my foot,” she said. “I did home 10 days before actually in Dubai I did the training. I got a little bit injured. But I just pushed myself. I said that every match is important here. I didn't think about anything else, just to win the match. So now I'm happy that I could finish well this tournament and to say stop for Doha. I need rest.”
It is not known if Halep will give it a go at Miami. She is scheduled to play the Volvo Car Open in Charleston, which begins April 4.