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Happy Auger-Also When the seventh seed was forced to withdraw from his first-round match against Nuno Borges, he couldn’t explain why he was suffering from cramps. australian open.
The Canadian returned to the world’s top 10 after returning last season and reaching the U.S. Open semifinals, but retired after falling behind Portugal’s Nuno Borges 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.
The 25-year-old said: “I want to compete with my opponents on the pitch. I don’t want to just stand there, you know, like a punching bag. So there’s no point.”
Auger-Aliassime said he started cramping early in the third set but admitted he didn’t remember struggling physically so early in his first match of the tournament.
“I don’t have all the answers right now,” Auger-Aliassime said. “I try to be very professional and well-prepared in everything I do. I love this sport, I love competing. So I prepare as best I can.
“It hurts more because you know, if I’m not really ready or I’m not doing everything right, then you have to be honest with yourself. But even being honest with myself, I didn’t quite find the reason why this happened. It hadn’t happened in the past, so I had to figure it out.”
Auger-Aliassime is the highest seed so far at the Australian Open, while Portuguese Borges will face Australian Jordan Thompson in the second round.