The country’s leading tennis player, Eleni Daniilidou, is certain to miss Wimbledon as well as next month’s French Open as she recovers from knee surgery.

Daniilidou was a guest at the ATP Athens Open on Sunday where she spent the afternoon sitting in the VIP area and hobbling around on crutches.

“There is no way I will be fit either for Paris or Wimbledon,” she told www.sportingreece.com. “It is very disappointing but there is not much I can do except physiotherapy to get my knee right for later in the year.”

Daniilidou suffered the injury during a match with Shuai Peng in Miami at the start of the month, retiring after just two games.

Organizers of the Athens Open are keeping their fingers crossed that the 25-year-old Daniilidou can recover as they are hoping to organize a women’s event in Athens for September with Daniilidou as the star attraction.