This Thursday the player with the best ranking among the rest said goodbye to the Mutua Madrid Open. Daniil Medvedev was forced to abandon his quarterfinal match against Czech Jiri Lehecka after losing the first set 6-4.
The Russian He decided not to continue after the first heat after noticing some worrisome discomfort in his right adductor. in the first games. At half-time after 3-2, the former world number 1 requested the presence of the physio and even went to the locker room for a few minutes of treatment.
He came back and took care of the next break again, at 4-3. That’s when Medvedev opened up and explained his feelings. “I feel a little better but I’m very scared” he admitted.
That fear is why he left three games later. He doesn’t want the injury to get worse and compromise his immediate schedule.
“Injuries are part of sport and the more you play and the more intensity, the more risk your body is at.. The surface changes, the matches… I try to take care of my skin but you never know. The weather, the cold. But none of the injuries are related,” he said at a subsequent press conference.
“Right now going to Rome is a risk but I need to see how everything went, talk to the team because it was good to go after winning last year. Now I just have to see what it is because we don’t know. “I don’t know if it’s something serious or not,” he said.
“I felt pain climbing the net. There is no need to continue. We have to do tests and know how much time I need to recover. Whether five days or two weeks… I don’t know,” Medvedev said.
“It’s a shame because I started well. I felt like I got into the game pretty well but it ended too quickly. It’s a shame because it’s the first match against Jiri who plays very well and I’m interested to play against him” concluded the Russian.
Source: La Verdad
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