Canada’s Milos Raonic retired from his quarterfinal in opposition to Jannik Sinner after which walked off the court docket gingerly after shaking fingers along with his opponent on Friday on the ABN AMRO Open in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Raonic misplaced the primary set 7-6 (4) and was tied at 1-1 within the second set when his match in opposition to the highest seed and 2024 Australian Open champ ended.
It marked the second match in a row to open 2024 through which Raonic has retired from a match. He exited his first-round match on the Australian Open with an obvious hip difficulty after splitting the primary two units and falling behind 2-0 within the third set in opposition to No. 10 seed Alex de Minaur.
The 33-year-old Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., missed the higher a part of two seasons with lower-body accidents earlier than returning to the tour final June.
Raonic reached a Canadian-best rating of No. 3 on the planet in 2016, months after making the ultimate at Wimbledon.