PARIS \u2014\u00a0Arthur Fils, the top-ranked French player at No. 19, withdrew from the\u00a0French Open\u00a0on Saturday because of a hip injury.<\/p>\n
Fils had retired in the first set of his opening match at the Italian Open in his last Roland Garros warmup.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old Fils said his hip \u201cwas bothering me a lot\u201d and while exams didn’t reveal any issues he still felt \u201ca lot of pain.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I was not able to practise for the last two weeks. Actually, the practice today was my first-ever points since two weeks (ago) in Rome,\u201d Fils added. \u201cI will not be fit 100 per cent to play the tournament, and I will not take any risk like I did last year. I don\u2019t want to be stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fils withdrew from last year\u2019s French Open after the second round due to a stress fracture in his lower back.<\/p>\n
Fils had performed well enough lately to give home fans hope that he might become the first French man to win Roland Garros since Yannick Noah in 1983.<\/p>\n
After missing the second half of last year due to his back injury, Fils had established a 22-7 record this year with deep runs in Doha; Indian Wells, Calif.; Miami; and Madrid. He also won a clay-court title in Barcelona.<\/p>\n
Fils was slated to open against 41-year-old\u00a0Stan Wawrinka, the 2015 champion making his final appearance at the French Open. Now Wawrinka will face a qualifier instead.<\/p>\n
Play in Paris starts on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS \u2014\u00a0Arthur Fils, the top-ranked French player at No. 19, withdrew from the\u00a0French Open\u00a0on Saturday because of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-689892","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\/689892","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=689892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}