Thailand’s Ratchanok Intanon may have a higher chance of winning an Olympic medal after reigning champion Carolina Marin pulled out of the Tokyo Games due to an injury.
The Spaniard, the women’s singles winner at Rio 2016, will miss this year’s Tokyo Olympics after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus in her left knee.
The 27-year-old will undergo surgery in the coming days after suffering the injury during a training session last week.
“This is another blow that I have to deal with, but I will certainly be back,” she wrote on social media.
The three-time world champion also ruptured the ACL in her right knee in 2019 and missed that year’s world championships.
Marin, who was crowned European champion for the fifth consecutive…
