The American Sebastian Korda retired from his first round match against Cameron Norrie at the US Open on Monday with an apparent back injury.
Korda, 25, was 7-5, 6-4 when he retired before the third set. The 75th world -class player sits his head covered with a towel at the Stadium 17, recently returned from an injury to the tibia which had put him away from the French Open in June. Korda came out of a race in the semi-final of the Winston-Salem Open, where he retired before last Friday’s match against Marton Fucsovics, citing a disease.
Clearly struggling with its movement, Korda called for a medical dead time at the start of the second set and trying to shorten the points as much as possible. He won 18 of the 29 net points (62%), while Norrie sought to extend the points and keep her opponent in motion.
For Norrie, 30 years old, it broke a sequence of three consecutive defeats. The Briton reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon, where he fell into right sets on Carlos Alcaraz.
Norrie absorbed 12 AS from Korda while winning a pair of rupture points to take the first two sets. Korda was unable to convert to any of her six break points and had 28 unrefitled errors.
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