Tallon Griekspoor advanced to the last 16 when Jannik Sinner was forced to retire from their match on Sunday.
In concerning scenes, the world No. 2 could barely walk, and he called the match with Griekspoor leading 6-7(3) 7-5 3-2. Sinner needed the physio’s help to leave the court.
Griekspoor later admitted the conditions were “brutal” as he sent his well-wishes to the four-time Major winner.
“Very unfortunate ending to what I thought was a high-quality match,” Griekspoor said.
“I thought first set we were both serving really, really well. Was not much to do on his serve and neither on mine. I thought he played a very, very high-level tiebreak where he hit a couple of lines, couple of aces, so not much to do there.
“Just very happy, content with how I stayed in the second set. Got a little bit lucky by saving that 0-40 on 4-3. Yeah, like I said, not the way you want to win, brutal conditions here. I wasn’t really fresh either myself. Yeah, I wish him a speedy recovery, and hopefully we see him back very soon.”