Victoria Azarenka says she was bothered by her back injury during her straight-sets defeat to Irina-Camelia Begu in Rome.
Though she noted that Begu is a good player, particularly on clay, the Belarusian indicated that she was hampered on court.
“I was trying, but it didn’t work,” Azarenka said at her press conference following the match. “The back’s not good right now. We’ll see what happens. I don’t know what to tell you. I’m very disappointed, obviously, with that. I thought I was OK and was ready to play, and came back, so I’m just disappointed."