Rafael Nadal withdrew from the Rolex Paris Masters on Friday before his quarter-final against qualifier Filip Krajinovic due to a right-knee injury. “I have to pull out,” Nadal said at a press conference. “Of course, it’s a very hard decision for me, especially — pulling out from any event is tough, but especially from here, from Paris. As I said a lot of times, it's the most important city in my career, without a doubt.” On Wednesday, Nadal clinched the year-end No. 1 Emirates ATP Ranking with his second-round victory against Next Gen ATP Finals qualifier Hyeon Chung. Nadal was the first player to qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals, doing so in June. The year-end finale will take place...
Nick Kyrgios announced on Twitter Thursday that he would skip the rest of the season to help aid his recovery from injury and best prepare for the 2018 season on the ATP World Tour. Here's an update guys. #SeeYouIn2018 ️ pic.twitter.com/oSoNsTXGCW — Nicholas Kyrgios (@NickKyrgios) October 19, 2017 “Unfortunately due to the reoccurrence of my hip injury that I originally suffered at Queen's [Club], I am shutting down my season to make sure I can rehab and prepare as best as I possibly can for the Australian summer,” Kyrgios wrote. “I have played a huge amount of tennis since coming back from my hip injury in Washington and unless I want this to escalate to an injury that requires surgery,...
Rafael Nadal has been forced to withdraw from next week’s Swiss Indoors Basel with knee soreness. The World No. 1 had reached back-to-back hard-court finals at the China Open (d. Kyrgios) and the Shanghai Rolex Masters (l. Federer) as part of a 16-match winning streak dating back to his 16th Grand Slam title at the US Open. The ATP World Tour 500 tournament released a statement Tuesday confirming the withdrawal: “After seeing his team doctor in Barcelona, the World No. 1 sadly had to pull out of the Swiss Indoors Basel. According to his doctors the Spaniard suffers from overstressing of the knee. The problems were already present at the tournament in Shanghai… His spot as top seed in Basel...
On Tuesday, Liam Broady registered his first win in the main draw of an ATP World Tour tournament by defeating former world No. 10 Ernests Gulbis 6-3, 6-0, in the opening round of the St. Petersburg Open in Russia. Satisfied? Hardly. On the heels of achieving his inaugural win, the 23-year-old British qualifier followed with a three-set, come-from-behind victory over the tournament’s No. 4 seed Adrian Mannarino one day later. A set and a break down, Broady gathered his wits, outdueled the fellow southpaw and overcame the 31st-ranked Frenchman to advance to his first ATP World Tour quarter-final. “After the first set, my legs were bad,” Broady said. “It was my fourth match in four days, so I was pretty...
“It should hurt, and it does,” admitted Roger Federer in the aftermath of his four-set defeat to Juan Martin del Potro in the quarter-finals of the US Open on Wednesday night. The Swiss, whose preparations for the final Grand Slam championship of the year were disrupted by a back injury this summer, bowed out of the US Open without the chance to fight Rafael Nadal for the No. 1 ranking in Friday’s semi-finals. [ALSO LIKE] But it is one disappointment in a season of many highs for Federer, who won his 18th and 19th major titles at the Australian Open (d. Nadal) and Wimbledon (d. Cilic). Considering where he was this time last year, injured and unable to play for...