An upset Felix Auger-Aliassime has explained his retirement after being unable to complete his first-round match against Nuno Borges.<\/p>\n
The Canadian won the first set but lost the next two – 6-3, 4-6, 4-6 – due to a leg injury and was gutted to have to call it quits.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime said: “I want to be on the court competing with my opponent. I don’t want to be just standing there, you know, like a punching bag.<\/p>\n
“So there’s no point. I don’t have all the answers now. I’m trying to be very professional at everything I do, prepare well.<\/p>\n
“I love this sport, and I love to play. So I try to do everything I can in my control to get ready.<\/p>\n
“It hurts even more, because you know, if I wasn’t really ready or I wasn’t doing everything, then you have to be honest with yourself.<\/p>\n
“But even with being honest with myself, I’m not totally finding the reasons why this is happening. It wasn’t happening in the past, so I’ll have to figure it out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An upset Felix Auger-Aliassime has explained his retirement after being unable to complete his first-round match against Nuno…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[12701,21399,870,6962,810,811,6766,101,118,872,56,54,55,11572],"class_list":["post-379295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-atp-tour","tag-australian-open","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-emma-raducanu","tag-iga-swiatek","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wta-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379295","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=379295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}