The number of players to withdraw or retire mid-match at the 2026 Italian Open has reached 22 across both the ATP and WTA draws.<\/p>\n
By Wednesday, 17 players had pulled out of the combined ATP\/WTA 1000 tournament in Rome, and another three men and two women have since followed.<\/p>\n
Carlos Alcaraz, Taylor Fritz, Jack Draper and Marketa Voundrousova were among the big names to pull out before the draws were made on Monday. Marta Kostyuk and Emma Raducanu both withdrew on the opening day of the women\u2019s event on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Amanda Anisimova<\/a>, the WTA world No 6, withdrew before her opening match on Thursday due to a left wrist injury. Women\u2019s world No 9 Victoria Mboko pulled out before her first match on Friday due to a gastrointestinal illness.<\/p>\n Valentin Vacherot, the ATP world No 16, withdrew shortly before his scheduled second round match against Marin Cilic on Friday citing a foot injury.<\/p>\n Everything Aryna Sabalenka said after shock Italian Open loss as she makes injury confession<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Tennis round-up: Sabalenka waves goodbye to Rome, Gauff survives, Pegula reveals boycott position<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as\u00a0<\/span>a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tomas Machac, the men\u2019s world No 41, pulled out before his scheduled second round match with Daniil Medvedev after beating Stefanos Tsitsipas in the first round.<\/p>\n Arthur Fils<\/a>, who is ranked 17th, retired when trailing 0-4 in his opening match against Andrea Pellegrino on Saturday because of hip pain.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Arthur Fils issues update after concerning injury retirement at Italian Open<\/a> The post Italian Open withdrawals and retirements: 22 stars out as Arthur Fils joins list<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The number of players to withdraw or retire mid-match at the 2026 Italian Open has reached 22 across both the ATP and WTA draws. By Wednesday, 17 players had pulled out of the combined ATP\/WTA 1000 tournament in Rome, and another three men and two women have since followed. Carlos Alcaraz, Taylor Fritz, Jack Draper […]<\/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-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","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=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More Tennis News<\/h2>\n
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