Madrid Open suffers second retirement in 24 hours as tournament plagued by injuries | Tennis | Sport

Jiri Lehecka was forced to retire from his maiden Masters 1000 semi-final, less than 24 hours after he benefitted from a retirement when Daniil Medvedev had to forfeit their quarter-final match on Thursday night. The world No. 31 called the physio and received an off-court medical time out but he quickly realised that he couldn’t continue playing and retired at 3-3 in the first set to Felix Auger-Aliassime. The Canadian is now through to his first Masters final.

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