Following his withdrawal against Alexander Zverev, Tallon Griekspoor has revealed that he suffered with an abdominal problem which prompted him to make the call.
He said: “No, abdominal is the first time for me. I’ve pulled some muscles before in my body, so I know the feeling. Like I said, last couple of serves from the warmup I felt it, and I tried everything in the meantime. Made a scan before the match, which showed nothing yet, but that’s probably because it’s too quick after it happened. They say it needs a couple of hours to show something.
“Tried everything with warmup. Felt actually okay in the first set even though I didn’t serve harder than 180 and went all the way down to 150 at some point.So, yeah, of course, tried to go out there. Probably one of the biggest matches of my life against an opponent that I like to play on a beautiful court. So I just want to give it a shot, but yeah, realized pretty early that it was not going to be my day.”
