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<\/a><\/p>\nFrench star Fils, who was scheduled to face former champion Stan Wawrinka in tomorrow\u2019s blockbuster opening round, officially withdrew from Roland Garros today due to a hip injury he sustained in Rome.<\/p>\n
The 19th-ranked Fils, who enjoys massive support on home soil, said the hip injury prevented him from practicing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, in Rome I felt a little bit like around the hip, you know, pain,\u201d Fils told the media at Roland Garros. \u201cWas bothering me a lot. I didn\u2019t want to take any risk in Rome.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen after, I did some exam. Everything were looking pretty fine, but still a lot of pain. So I was not able to practice for the last two weeks. Actually, the practice today was my first-ever points since two weeks in Rome.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the sport\u2019s most explosive young players, Fils reached the Doha final in February where he was blown out by Carlos Alcaraz. The Frenchman bounced back in a big way. Fils reached the Indian Wells quarterfinals, a pair of ATP Masters 1000 semifinals in Miami and Madrid and knocked off 2025 Roland Garros semifinalist Lorenzo Musetti, rising Spanish star Rafael Jodar and Andrey Rublev in succession to capture his fourth career championship on the red clay of Barcelona.<\/p>\n
Still, memories of his electrifying five-set win over Jaume Munar in the Roland Garros second round resonated with Fils in his decision to withdraw. Fils suffered a back injury in that memorable win that limited him to just two matches the rest of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, you know, I will not be fit 100% to play the tournament, and I will not take any risk like I did last year,\u201d Fils said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be stupid, you know (smiling). So, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n
A supreme athlete who owns one of the heaviest forehands in the game, Fils said he feels he\u2019s not even at 50 percent health today.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt it coming. Then I did everything I could to be prepared to play this tournament,\u201d Fils said. \u201cBut then, if you don\u2019t practice, for two weeks I haven\u2019t practiced, even when one doesn\u2019t practice, one can always feel some pain. This is what I felt.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought about it, and I wondered, would I only play for one round or two rounds? Am I ready for everything?<\/p>\n
\u201cI know the answer. The answer is to aim for a deep run. I know I can do it, but I wouldn\u2019t be 100%. I\u2019m not even at 50% of my normal shape right now, so I don\u2019t want to take any risk.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yannik Noah, who dethroned defending champion Mats Wilander in a superb serve-and-volley clinic in the 1983 Roland Garros final, remains the last Frenchman to win the French Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Saturday, May 23, 2026Photo credit: Matthew Calvis Arthur Fils experienced the glory and gory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-689006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}