Argentina’s two highest-ranked males’s gamers Diego Schwartzman and Francisco Cerundolo are a doubt for subsequent week’s Australian Open after pulling out of the Auckland Classic.
The Twenty fifth-ranked Schwartzman retired from his second-round match on Wednesday with a leg harm after dropping the primary set to American Jenson Brooksby.
The third seed struggled via the set, which he misplaced 6-1, earlier than searching for medical consideration.
After having his higher left thigh strapped, the 30-year-old was nonetheless uncomfortable when performing workouts and forfeited the match — 5 days from the beginning of the Grand Slam in Melbourne.
Schwartzman has reached at the least the quarter-final stage at 5 Grand Slam tournaments, though his greatest outcome on the Australian Open are fourth-round exits in 2018 and 2020.
World quantity 30 Cerundolo pulled out earlier than the beginning of his second-round match with an obvious sickness, citing “abdominal pain”.
“With my team we decided that this was the best decision,” he posted on social media.
“Now we are going to Melbourne to recover and try to get to compete at 100 percent in the Australian Open.”
