Toe injury forces Auger-Aliassime to retire from 1st-round match in Rotterdam

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Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime retired from his first-round lucifer against Italian qualifier Andrea Vavassori astatine the ABN Amro Open connected Wednesday owed to a toed injury.

Fresh disconnected rubric triumph successful France, Canadian was playing Italian qualifier Vavassori

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Feb 05, 2025 11:41 AM EST | Last Updated: February 5

Canadian tennis subordinate    Felix Auger Aliassime returns the shot  to American Aleksandar Kovacevic during their Occitanie men's last  tennis lucifer  successful  Montpellier, France connected  February 2, 2025.

Canada's Felix Auger Aliassime stopped playing his first-round lucifer against Italian qualifier for an undisclosed crushed Wednesday aft dropping a 6-4 determination successful the 2nd acceptable successful Rotterdam, Netherlands. (Sylvain Thomas/AFP via Getty Images/File)

Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime retired from his first-round lucifer against Italian qualifier Andrea Vavassori astatine the ABN Amro Open connected Wednesday owed to a toed injury.

Auger-Aliassime, from Montreal, stopped playing aft dropping a 6-4 determination successful the 2nd set. He had taken the opener 7-6 (3) successful Rotterdam, Netherlands.

In a societal media post, Auger-Aliassime said helium experienced a toed occupation astatine signifier Tuesday and it bothered him again during the match.

"I'll person it taken attraction of this week," helium said. "I'm bittersweet to permission a tourney that I emotion early, but I anticipation to beryllium caller and acceptable to spell for Doha coming up."

The Qatar ExxonMobil Open begins Feb. 17.

The 23rd-ranked Auger-Aliassime was coming disconnected a rubric past week In Montpellier, France. It was his seventh vocation ATP Tour rubric and 2nd this season.

Get good soon, Felix 😔<br><br>2022 champ Auger-Aliassime is forced to discontinue astatine 1 acceptable all, sending Vavassori done to the 2nd round<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/abnamroopen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#abnamroopen</a> <a href="https://t.co/6xepAQZC7s">pic.twitter.com/6xepAQZC7s</a>

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