{"id":952195,"date":"2026-10-30T18:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T18:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/952195\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T18:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T18:26:11","slug":"i-feel-confident-arthur-fils-retires-hurt-in-basel-but-expects-to-play-paris-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/952195\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I feel confident\u2019: Arthur Fils retires hurt in Basel but expects to play Paris Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI felt a little pain in my leg on a movement at the very start of the match, and it didn\u2019t go away,\u201d Fils <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lequipe.fr\/Tennis\/Actualites\/Arthur-fils-apres-son-abandon-a-bale-en-fonction-des-examens-on-va-voir-ce-qu-on-va-faire-pour-la-suite-de-la-saison\/1739826\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told L\u2019\u00c9quipe<\/a>, without saying which leg. \u201cI asked for a medical timeout, but it didn\u2019t get any better, so I made the decision to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Depending on the tests, we\u2019ll see what we do for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He will now see his doctors before deciding anything. \u201cI\u2019m going to go back to Paris to have tests and talk with my team,\u201d he said. \u201cDepending on the tests, we\u2019ll see what we do for the rest of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Paris Masters starts Monday, and Fils would not play his first match before Tuesday or Wednesday. Asked again about it, he did not hesitate. \u201cYes, I feel confident. I\u2019ll see how it goes with the team, but I feel confident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The retirement sends Fritz into the semifinals and ends Fils\u2019s chance of sealing his Turin place this week. He needed the Basel title to make sure of qualification. He started Friday holding one of the five places still open in the PIF ATP Live Race to Turin, behind Alexander Zverev, Carlos Alcaraz and Ben Shelton, who have already qualified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That leaves Paris as the last stop. It is the final Masters 1000 of the season and Fils\u2019s home event, and the Nitto ATP Finals follow in Turin on Nov. 15-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI felt a little pain in my leg on a movement at the very start of the match,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":952196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-952195","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\/952195","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=952195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}