This Thursday the player with the best ranking of those remaining 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 race after noticing some worrying 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 to be treated for a few minutes.
He returned and was taken care of again in the next break, at 4-3. It was then that Medvedev opened up and explained his feelings. “I feel a little better but I’m very scared“he confessed.
That fear was what made him leave three games later. He did not want the injury to get worse and compromise his immediate schedule.
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“Injuries are part of sport and the more you play and with more intensity, the more risk there is in your body.. The surface changes, the matches… I try to take better care of my leather but you never know. The weather, the cold. But none of the injuries are related,” he said at the subsequent press conference.
“Right now going to Rome is a risk but I have to see how everything happened, talk to the team because it would be good to go after winning last year. Now I just need to see what it is because we don’t know. “I don’t know if it’s something serious or not,” she said.
“I felt pain when climbing the net. It was not necessary to continue. We will have to do tests and know how much time I will need to recover. Whether five days or two weeks… I don’t know,” Medvedev said.
“It was a shame because I started well. I felt like I entered the game well but it was over soon. It’s a shame because it was the first match against Jiri who is playing very well and I was interested in playing against him” concluded the Russian.
