A list of all of Tiger Woods' injuries and surgeries

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A list of all of Tiger Woods' injuries and surgeries

2025-03-13 00:29 Last Updated At：00:42

A look at the injuries for Tiger Woods, who had surgery Tuesday on a ruptured left Achilles tendon.

—December 1994: Has surgery on left knee to remove two benign tumors and scar tissue.

—Dec. 13, 2002: Has surgery on left knee to remove fluid inside and outside the ACL and remove benign cysts from his left knee. Misses the season opener in 2003.

—August 2007: Ruptures the ACL in his left knee while running on a golf course after the British Open but is able to keep playing. Wins five of the last six tournaments he plays, including the PGA Championship for his 13th major.

—April 15, 2008: Two days after the Masters, has arthroscopic surgery on his left knee to repair cartilage damage.

—May 2008: Advised weeks before the U.S. Open that he has two stress fractures of the left tibia and should rest for six weeks, the first three weeks on crutches.

—June 24, 2008: Eight days after winning the U.S. Open, has surgery to repair the ACL in his left knee by using a tendon from his right thigh. Additional cartilage damage is repaired. Misses the rest of the season.

—December 2008: Injures his Achilles tendon in his right leg as he was running while preparing to return to golf.

—Nov. 27, 2009: Is hospitalized overnight with a sore neck and a cut lip that required five stitches when the SUV he was driving ran over a fire hydrant and into a tree.

—May 9, 2010: Withdraws from the final round of The Players Championship, citing a bulging disk. He later said it was a neck issue that caused tingling in his right side, and that it first became a problem as he began practicing harder for his return to the Masters a month earlier.

—April 10, 2011: Injures his left Achilles tendon hitting from an awkward stance below Eisenhower’s Tree on the 17th at Augusta National.

—May 12, 2011: Withdraws from The Players Championship after a 42 on the front nine. Is diagnosed with an MCL sprain in his left knee and a left Achilles tendon strain. He misses the next two months, including two majors.

—March 11, 2012: Feels tightness in his left Achilles tendon and withdraws after 11 holes of the final round in the Cadillac Championship at Doral. He wins in his next start at Bay Hill, his first PGA Tour victory since the scandal in his personal life.

—Aug. 24, 2012: Moves stiffly during the second round of The Barclays and later says he felt pain in his lower back, which he attributed to a soft mattress in his hotel room.

—June 13, 2013: Is seen shaking his left arm during the opening round of the U.S. Open. He later says it’s a left elbow strain that he injured while winning The Players Championship a month earlier. He misses two tournaments and returns at the British Open.

—Aug. 11, 2013: Says he felt tightness in his back during the final round of the PGA Championship.

—Aug. 21, 2013: Two weeks after the PGA Championship, he drops to his knees after one shot because of back spasms in the final round of The Barclays.

—March 2, 2014: Withdraws after 13 holes of the final round at The Honda Classic because of lower back pain and spasms, describing it as similar to what he felt at The Barclays.

—March 9, 2014: Plays the final 12 holes with pain in his lower back, saying it began to flare up after hitting out of the bunker from an awkward lie in the Cadillac Championship at Doral. He shoots 78, the highest score of his career in a final round.

—March 19, 2014: Withdraws from the Arnold Palmer Invitational because of the persistent pain in his back. He was the two-time defending champion.

—March 31, 2014: Has surgery in Utah for a pinched nerve.

—April 1, 2014: Announces he will miss the Masters and not return to golf until the summer.

—Sept. 16, 2015: Has a second microdiscectomy surgery to remove a disc fragment that was pinching his nerve.

—Oct. 28, 2015: Has a third surgery he describes as a follow-up to relieve discomfort.

—Feb. 3, 2017: Withdraws from the Dubai Desert Classic before the start of his second round with back spasms. He opened with a 77.

—April 19, 2017: Has surgery to fuse his lower back.

—May 30, 2017: Attributes an arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence when police find him asleep behind the wheel of a parked car as a reaction to prescription medication.

—March 4, 2019: Withdraws from the Arnold Palmer Invitational with what he describes as a neck strain that he has had for two weeks.

—Aug. 9, 2019: Withdraws after a 75 in the first round of FedEx Cup playoffs opener, citing a strained oblique.

—Aug. 27, 2019: Announces he had arthroscopic surgery the previous week to repair minor ligament damage in his left knee.

—Jan. 19, 2021: Announces he had a fifth microdiscectomy procedure on his back to remove a pressurized disc fragment.

—February 23, 2021: Crashes an SUV that police said was going about 85 mph in a 45 mph zone and suffers comminuted open fractures to the upper and lower sections of his right leg and trauma to his right ankle.

—April 9, 2023: Withdraws from the Masters instead of playing 28 holes in the cold. He attributes it to “reaggravating my plantar fasciitis.”

—April 19, 2023: Announces he had a subtalar fusion procedure on his right ankle to help with post-traumatic arthritis.

—Sept. 13, 2024: Announces a sixth surgery on his back to repair a nerve impingement.

—March 11, 2025: Has surgery for a ruptured Achilles tendon in his left foot that he hurt while ramping up practice and training.

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Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka: 'just want to quit tennis' after French Open quarterfinal defeat

PARIS (AP) — After letting another big lead slip with an error-strewn performance at the French Open, top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka felt like getting as far away from the courts as possible.

“Just want to quit tennis right now,” Sabalenka said after wasting a lead of a set and two breaks in a 3-6, 7-5, 6-0 loss to Diana Shnaider in the quarterfinals on Wednesday. “We’ll see in few days. Hopefully I’ll get back on track mentally.”

Sabalenka's wait for a first French Open title continues despite the four-time major winner leading 4-1 in the second set and being two points from victory while serving for the match at 5-4. What followed was a complete collapse as she lost 12 of the last 13 games against a player appearing in her first Grand Slam quarterfinal, looking increasingly frustrated and forlorn in the windy conditions.

Just like her loss to Coco Gauff in last year's final, when she also won the first set before becoming undone with a slew of unforced errors, this one will take some time to get over.

“You know those rooms where you just go in and you smash everything,” Sabalenka said. “Probably I will spend a whole day tomorrow over there destroying stuff. Maybe it will help, maybe not.”

Shnaider next faces Maja Chwalinska, who extended her remarkable Roland Garros run by beating No. 22-seeded Anna Kalinskaya 7-6 (3), 6-3.

In the men’s quarterfinals, 10th-seeded Flavio Cobolli beat No. 4 Felix Auger-Aliassime 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to ensure there will be an Italian finalist. Cobolli will face one of two fellow Italians, Matteo Berrettini or Matteo Arnaldi — who were playing later — in the semifinals.

The strong Italian showing comes despite top-ranked Jannik Sinner getting stunned in the second round.

Second-seeded Alexander Zverev and No. 26 Jakub Mensik will meet in the other semifinal.

Sabalenka stood still and screamed loudly after losing a point to fall 0-30 down in the sixth game of the decider and, although she saved two match points at 0-40 down, she lost when she sent a shot into the net.

“I just think it’s combination of everything,” Sabalenka lamented. “You overthink, then you make easy mistakes, then you miss opportunities.”

Her struggles were reminiscent of the match against Gauff, when she remonstrated loudly, shouting to herself and glaring at her team box.

“I just have to sit back and openly think about what’s going on in my head in those tough moments,” Sabalenka said, recalling that match. “Because I’m quite an experienced player. I have been through so many things, and I overcome so many things.”

Sabalenka had already looked agitated when serving for the first set but still looked in control as she served for the match in the second, holding a 30-15 lead.

“Of course I saw some moments of her frustration,” Shnaider said. “I know Aryna, that she’s a very emotional person."

Shnaider, who was already on her best run at a major, broke Sabelenka before taking complete control.

“Well, honestly I am speechless. Super happy,” Shnaider said. “I feel like I was trying to focus point by point. Not thinking about the score. She is the world No. 1, so I just trying to do my best. I just had to fight for every point.”

Sabalenka looked increasingly frustrated as the third set wore on, and when she missed a volley at the net in the fourth game of the decider she crouched and rested her head on her racket.

It was another big upset in a tournament where defending champion Gauff (third round) and four-time winner Iga Swiatek (fourth round) already tumbled out.

Defending men’s champion Jannik Sinner served for the match in a second round defeat, and 24-time major winner Novak Djokovic wasted a two-set lead in a third round loss.

That opened things up for lesser-known players. According to Opta, this is the first major without a former champion in either the men’s and women’s semifinals since the French Open in 1977.

The unseeded Chwalinska came through three qualifying rounds to become only the second Polish woman to reach the semifinals at Roland Garros, along with Swiatek.

Chwalinska said British player Emma Raducanu’s run to the 2021 U.S. Open title as an 18-year-old qualifier had inspired her.

“It was such an impressive run, you know,” Chwalinska recalled. “Also, she was so young.”

When Kalinskaya’s big forehand from the back of the court went out, the 24-year-old Chwalinska had her biggest win, having never been beyond the second round at any major before this tournament.

Chwalinska’s total prize money heading into Roland Garros was $864,030 and reaching the last four here earns her 750,000 euros (about $872,000).

The roof was open on Court Philippe-Chatrier and there was a lot of wind.

“I don’t know why would they keep the roof open when it was crazy windy,” Sabalenka said. “It was very dirty tennis. I don’t know how people could actually just sit there and watch me play.”

Kalinskaya also struggled.

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