It was perhaps his last participation in the Wimbledon tournament. Rafael Nadal withdrew Thursday ahead of his semi-final scheduled for Friday against Nick Kyrgios. The Spanish tennis player injured his abdominals and had already almost given up in the quarter-finals. “I have an abdominal tear. We talked all day about the decision to make, but it makes no sense to play if I want to continue my career“, he declared in a press conference.
Winner of the first two Majors of the year (Australian Open and Roland-Garros), he suffered from an abdominal tear seven millimeters in length, the Spanish daily Marca reported on Thursday. He thus lets Kyrgios access his first Grand Slam final without playing.