The 19-year-old Spaniard was trailing fellow Dane Holger Rune 3-6, 6-6 and 1-3 in the tiebreak when he threw in the towel with a suspected abdominal muscle injury.
The timing is unfortunate for him. The ATP Finals, for which the climber of the year qualified for the first time, will begin in a week’s Sunday in Turin. After that he is also scheduled for the Davis Cup final tournament in Spain.
Alcaraz now has nine days to get the injury under control. “I can’t stretch, I couldn’t serve well and hit the forehand well,” Alcaraz later said. He preferred to give up and take care of it. “I will now undergo a few tests. I will try to be at 100 percent again by Turin.”
Now, in the semi-finals of the indoor tournament in Paris, the final of the Swiss Indoors in Basel, in which Félix Auger-Aliassime clearly prevailed, will be repeated. The 22-year-old Canadian is now 16 games unbeaten after beating Frances Tiafoe (USA) 6-1, 6-4 on Friday. Rune is in the semi-finals of a tournament of this magnitude for the first time.
Auger-Aliassime has recently won the titles in Florence, Antwerp and Basel, he is going for his fourth triumph in as many weeks.
Source: Nachrichten
