The dream of another match between Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic evaporated on Tuesday as Murray tumbled out of the Geneva Open on his comeback from an ankle harm.
Wild card Murray was 7-5, 4-1 right down to Yannick Hanfmann when a thunderstorm lashed the Parc des Eaux-Vives grounds on Monday.
They resumed on Tuesday, with the German world quantity 85 taking little greater than 10 minutes to win the second set 6-2.
Ever since Friday’s draw, tennis followers had been relishing what may maybe have been the final match between members of the Large 4 who’ve dominated males’s tennis this century: Djokovic, Murray, Rafael Nadal and the now-retired Roger Federer.
As an alternative, Hanfmann will now face world primary Djokovic within the second spherical on Wednesday.
Now quantity 75 on this planet, Murray, aged 37 and enjoying with a metallic hip, has mentioned he’s unlikely to hold on enjoying aggressive tennis past the following few months, whereas Nadal, additionally affected by accidents, is likewise going through the tip of his profession and is uncertain if he’ll make a farewell look at subsequent week’s French Open.
The Geneva match was former world primary and three-time Grand Slam winner Murray’s first tour-level outing since damaging tendons in his left ankle in Miami in March.
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The 28-man Swiss clay courtroom match serves as a remaining tune-up earlier than the French Open, the second Grand Slam of the yr.
Djokovic, who turns 37 on Wednesday, took a wild card to play in Geneva in a bid to rescue an alarming dip in type forward of his French Open title defence subsequent week.
The file 24-time Grand Slam champion will arrive in Paris and not using a title within the season for the primary time since 2018, until he takes the Geneva trophy.
Casper Ruud, the Norwegian world quantity seven, can also be within the Geneva draw, together with fellow prime 20 gamers Taylor Fritz, Ben Shelton and Sebastian Baez.
Murray and Djokovic had final performed in 2017 within the Doha remaining, with the Serb taking the title.
Murray received the US Open in 2012 and Wimbledon in 2013 and 2016, making 11 Grand Slam remaining appearances in all. He additionally received the 2012 and 2016 Olympic singles titles.