Lorenzo Musetti has opened up after his \u201creally painful\u201d retirement against Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open and revealed he believes the injury he suffered was a \u201ctear.\u201d<\/p>\n
The world No 5 was leading 6-4, 6-3, 1-3 against 10-time Australian Open<\/a> champion Djokovic in the quarter-finals at Melbourne Park when he was forced to retire due to a right leg injury.<\/p>\n Musetti<\/a> entered the match with a 1-9 record against Djokovic, and he was delivering a superb performance until his body cruelly broke down.<\/p>\n The Italian star was competing in his first Australian Open quarter-final, and a victory over the 24-time Grand Slam champion in Melbourne would have surely have been his finest win.<\/p>\n In his post-match press conference, Musetti revealed the issue arose early in the second set and got progressively worse.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, I felt it at the beginning of the second set. I felt there was something strange in my right leg,\u201d said the Italian.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I continued to play because I was playing really, really, really well, but I was feeling that the pain was increasing, and the problem was not getting away.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel personally that I know my body and I feel personally that I\u2019m kind of secure that this is a tear, unfortunately.\u201d<\/p>\n Novak Djokovic gets warning about his level from experts after \u2018lucky\u2019 Australian Open escape<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Australian Open: Novak Djokovic makes confession after Lorenzo Musetti heartbreak<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n Asked if he had an idea as to why he has had to retire multiple times at Grand Slams, Musetti said he had no explanation.<\/p>\n \u201cNo. We have done all the exams and tests before starting the season to see and to try to prevent these kind of injuries, and nothing came out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I honestly have no words to describe how I\u2019m feeling right now and how tough is for me this injury in this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n The 23-year-old added: \u201cHonestly, I never imagined the feeling of leading two sets to zero against Novak and playing like that.<\/p>\n \u201cHaving the lead of the match like that and being forced to retire is something that I will never imagine. Of course, it\u2019s really painful.<\/p>\n \u201cI played almost all the second set like that, but I could play, because especially with the serve, it was helping me a lot. I was trying a little bit to push from the baseline, which I was feeling the ball pretty well today.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I was managing to try to hold there and to stay and try to, you know, not look at the pain. But then afterwards when I sit down for three minutes and stayed longer in the wait position, the pain immediately started to increase.<\/p>\n \u201cI was \u2013 especially when I was going with the forehand on the open stance \u2013 I was feeling that I could not come back to the middle. As you saw, I could not really play. Unfortunately, there was no chance, and no way to tape it, to do something, to continue to play.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Australian Open: Why was Novak Djokovic irritated by chair umpire James Keothavong?<\/a> The post Australian Open: Lorenzo Musetti makes telling confession about injury after \u2018painful\u2019 retirement<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lorenzo Musetti has opened up after his \u201creally painful\u201d retirement against Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open and revealed he believes the injury he suffered was a \u201ctear.\u201d The world No 5 was leading 6-4, 6-3, 1-3 against 10-time Australian Open champion Djokovic in the quarter-finals at Melbourne Park when he was forced to retire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Australian Open News<\/h2>\n
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