The 29-year-old shared her prognosis after ending her second spherical on the main in North Carolina on Friday, including that she didn’t but know whether or not the tumor was benign or malignant.
“Proper now, it isn’t so simple as blaming the tumor to be the issue. It is not simply that I’ve a problem with my again, there’s extra to it.”
Having withdrawn from the LOTTE Championship in April citing again ache, World No. 12 ranked Kang withdrew once more from the Palos Verdes Championship in Hawaii later that month.
“Play effectively this week … solely individual I do know to be enjoying with a tumor in her backbone,” the put up learn.
On Friday, the American informed reporters she obtained the prognosis upon coming back from Hawaii, although had not wished to publicize it.
Responding to a query about her brother’s put up, Kang thanked her physician and physios for serving to her fulfill her intention to play on the main, the place she completed 63rd.
“I am actually joyful that I am right here. It has been a tough highway however I am fairly stoked that I can hit sure pictures and I really feel like my recreation is a bit bit there,” Kang stated.
“I performed so dangerous for the final couple months and never solely that, I have never touched a membership or practiced for a very long time, so I am unable to count on it to be a flawless spherical, particularly on the US Ladies’s Open.”
‘Some issues simply do not play out as deliberate’
“I needed to have some solutions earlier than it turned a public info and sadly, in some ways I’ve discovered, some issues simply do not play out as deliberate,” she wrote.
“As a previous champion this was not a simple determination, nevertheless if I’ve discovered something from throwing a match to play within the US Open, I wish to compete, not simply take part,” she added.
