TURIN, Italy — Stefanos Tsitsipas retired with an damage after simply three video games of his second match on the ATP Finals on Tuesday, handing Holger Rune the victory.

Tsitsipas, the 2019 champion, was trailing 2-1 within the opening set when he had a prolonged dialog along with his coach earlier than slowly attending to his toes, shaking his head and strolling over to shake Rune’s hand.

That was after simply 17 minutes of play and led to boos from the gang in Turin - which as a substitute needed to accept an exhibition match between alternates Taylor Fritz and Hubert Hurkacz.

Tsitsipas, who misplaced to house favourite Jannik Sinner 6-4, 6-4 on Sunday, had reduce quick a follow session on Friday as a result of an obvious bodily difficulty however the Greek participant stated he was “absolutely fine.”

Rune additionally misplaced his opener 7-6 (4), 6-7 (1), 6-3 to top-ranked Novak Djokovic however the Dane now tops the inexperienced group forward of Djokovic’s match towards Sinner later.

“For sure (not the way I wanted to win). It is very unfortunate,” Rune stated. “You might see within the first service recreation, he was not serving as full as he can.

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“For sure, something was up and when he called the physio I knew. It’s a long season, I wish him all the best.”

Tsitsipas additionally withdrew from the event in 2021 after shedding his opening match.

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