Sebastian Korda retired with a wrist harm throughout his Australian Open conflict with Karen Khachanov, sending the Russian via to a second consecutive grand slam semi-final.
American Korda has been one of many tales of the match, defeating Daniil Medvedev and Hubert Hurkacz to succeed in a primary slam quarter-final 25 years after his father Petr lifted the trophy.
But he started to wrestle half manner via the second set, receiving a medical time-out, and, after dropping seven video games in a row, referred to as it quits trailing 7-6 (5) 6-3 3-0.
It was a really disappointing solution to bow out for the 22-year-old, who was in apparent discomfort and was lowered to chopping forehands in a useless try to discover a manner again into the match.
Having reached the final 4 at a slam for the primary time in his twenty third main match on the US Open final summer time, Khachanov is now again on the similar stage in his subsequent occasion.
“Back to back semi-finals at a slam feels great,” mentioned the Russian. “Obviously not the way you want to finish the match. Up until a certain point it was a great battle.”
Khachanov and Korda met for the primary time at a grand slam at Wimbledon in 2021, and a topsy-turvy contest went all the best way to a fifth-set tie-break earlier than the Russian edged it.
This seemed set to be a detailed battle as nicely, with Korda recovering from a breakdown to drive a tie-break within the opening set after which starting the second strongly.
But he referred to as the coach after 5 video games to have his proper wrist taped and didn’t win one other sport.
