{"id":256110,"date":"2025-11-11T03:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/256110\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T03:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:40:10","slug":"atp-finals-star-addresses-pulling-out-of-tournament-and-missing-out-on-126k-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/256110\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Finals star addresses pulling out of tournament and missing out on \u00a3126k | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Felix Auger-Aliassime has addressed injury concerns after calling the physio during his opening match at the ATP Finals,<\/a> where he struggled to push off his left leg. The Canadian has previously dealt with knee and calf injuries, and they came back to haunt him as he suffered a 7-5 6-1 defeat to Jannik Sinner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It sparked concern about Auger-Aliassime\u2019s future in the tournament and whether he would withdraw before his next two round-robin matches against Alexander Zverev<\/a> and Ben Shelton. But Auger-Aliassime has now tamed those fears, playing down the injury.<\/p>\n

Asked how concerned he was about his left calf, the No. 8 seed replied: \u201cNo, not dangerous. I’m not too concerned. He’s an amazing player. You have to give credit when the guy is just better than you.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday he was better than me. I’ll get ready for the next one. But no, I’m not too worried. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime has played a lot of tennis of late. He retired in the middle of his Swiss Indoors quarter-final last month but bounced back to reach the Paris Masters final.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old then pulled out of last week\u2019s ATP 250 event in Metz and headed straight to Turin while waiting to learn whether he\u2019d done enough to qualify for the ATP Finals. And he confirmed that the calf had nothing to do with his withdrawal in Metz.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I talked about this week why I withdrew from Metz. Nothing with the calf. Yeah, let’s see. I mean, it was a good match. It was a good match until the end. Like I said in the first answer, I’m not too worried,\u201d Auger-Aliassime added.<\/p>\n

This is Auger-Aliassime\u2019s second career appearance at the ATP Finals. He qualified in 2022 and lost two of his three group stage matches to Casper Ruud and Taylor Fritz<\/a>, but beat Rafael Nadal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If the calf gets worse and Auger-Aliassime withdraws from the tournament, he can be replaced by one of the two alternates – Alexander Bublik or Ruud.<\/p>\n

However, Auger-Aliassime would miss out on the full participation fee for playing three matches if he could not continue in the draw.<\/p>\n

The world No. 8 has already earned \u00a3126k ($165.5k) for competing in one match. Players get \u00a3188k ($248k) for playing two matches, and \u00a3251k ($331k) for playing all three in the group stage. That doesn\u2019t include \u00a3301k ($396.5k) in prize money for each round-robin win.<\/p>\n

Sinner will be delighted to hear that Auger-Aliassime isn\u2019t concerned about his calf, as the world No. 2 sent his well-wishes to his rival after the match.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also hope that it\u2019s nothing too serious. I wish him obviously a very, very speedy recovery, and we all hope that he is getting back to 100 per cent physically,\u201d the Italian said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Felix Auger-Aliassime has addressed injury concerns after calling the physio during his opening match at the ATP Finals,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[30245,12701,35071,811,101,118,872,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-256110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-atp-finals","tag-atp-tour","tag-felix-auger-aliassime","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}