This 100% French derby had everything on paper to offer us an anthology match, like in the final at Tokyo a few months ago. But after 2h37 of fighting, Arthur Son went to shake the hand of the chair umpire, injured in the ankle and unable to continue this battle. WhileUgo Humbert advances to the round of 16 at Melbourne where he will find Alexander Zverevthe Parisian remains helpless and frustrated by the situation. He won the first set before seeing Messin come back and lead 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, 1-0. “Ending like this sucks” confided Fils to L’Equipe after the meeting.
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“At the end, I could no longer walk or move around”
“Against Quentin (Halys, in the second round)I hurt my ankle, and we decided to strap on to hold the ankle. The problem is that I always can’t stand straps.” confided Arthur Son, missed out on his first round of 16 at Melbourne. “The further into the match, the more my foot hurt. A nerve was compressed or the fifth meta… I don’t know exactly. At the end, I couldn’t walk or move around anymore. It was no use There’s no point in continuing. It’s annoying to stop a match like that.”
“The first set was very good.” he continued. “But it’s just a question of time. In the middle of the second, I started to feel the foot. It’s a stupid thing, I said to myself: in two games, I’m going to change shoes, I’m going to see what it looks like. I changed shoes, then we took off the strap… We did a lot of things.But once it comes, it doesn’t go away. The more it goes on, the more it goes up. And at the start of the fourth, when I had to get up from the bench, I didn’t succeed. It’s not a big injury. Especially since we played well, it was a good match, it was nice, on a big court, a good atmosphere, it was cool. Ending like this sucks.”
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