Four players have retired mid-match in the gruelling Paris heat on Tuesday at the 2026 French Open, while another star has pulled out of the tournament.<\/p>\n
Main draw action at Roland Garros got underway on Sunday, and there were 12 players who pulled out before their opening matches across both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles events.<\/p>\n
Carlos Alcaraz, Lorenzo Musetti, Arthur Fils, Holger Rune and Jack Draper were among the eight men to withdraw, while former Wimbledon winner Marketa Vondrousova was one of four women to pull out.<\/p>\n
With temperatures soaring to 33 degrees Celsius in Paris today, three men and one woman have been forced to retire during their opening round matches.<\/p>\n
This takes the total number of mid-match retirements in the first round of the French Open<\/a> to six, after there were two \u2014 one in each of the men\u2019s and women\u2019s draws \u2014 on Sunday.<\/p>\n Daniil Medvedev suffers shock French Open exit after being told to \u2018behave\u2019 by his wife<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Moise Kouame smashes two Grand Slam records and soars in the rankings by defeating Marin Cilic<\/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 In addition to the four retirements on Tuesday, world No 37 Alexander Blockx withdrew before his scheduled second round match with Alex de Minaur on Wednesday.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: John McEnroe gives honest opinion on Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s injury & Novak Djokovic\u2019s French Open hopes<\/a> The post French Open withdrawals and retirements: 17 players out as 4 stars retire in gruelling heat<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Four players have retired mid-match in the gruelling Paris heat on Tuesday at the 2026 French Open, while another star has pulled out of the tournament. Main draw action at Roland Garros got underway on Sunday, and there were 12 players who pulled out before their opening matches across both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles […]<\/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-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","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=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}French Open 2026 mid-match retirements<\/h2>\n
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