{"id":202835,"date":"2025-06-21T15:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T15:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202835\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T15:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T15:22:14","slug":"frances-no-1-tennis-star-withdraws-from-wimbledon-with-stress-fracture-weeks-after-french-open-rival-accused-him-of-faking-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202835\/","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s No 1 tennis star withdraws from Wimbledon with stress fracture &#8211; weeks after French Open rival accused him of faking injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\"><strong>The star was forced to pull out of his third round match at Roland Garros in May<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>He had aimed to play in Wimbledon but he has now had to withdraw from event<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>A rival suggested the star had cramps rather than the stress fracture in his back<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-1101\/lewis-browning.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LEWIS BROWNING<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  07:18 EDT, 21 June 2025   |  Updated:  07:36 EDT, 21 June 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">France&#8217;s No 1 ranked tennis star has pulled out of <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/wimbledon\/index.html\" id=\"mol-32b09040-4e8e-11f0-a210-9733e0efdf2d\" rel=\"noopener\">Wimbledon<\/a> through injury &#8211; having been accused by a rival of not actually being injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">England&#8217;s premier competition will kick off on June 30, with the likes of <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/carlos-alcaraz\/index.html\" id=\"mol-32a93d40-4e8e-11f0-a210-9733e0efdf2d\" rel=\"noopener\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/jannik-sinner\/index.html\" id=\"mol-327052f0-4e8e-11f0-a210-9733e0efdf2d\" rel=\"noopener\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> and <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/novak_djokovic\/index.html\" id=\"mol-32ad0dd0-4e8e-11f0-a210-9733e0efdf2d\" rel=\"noopener\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> hoping for success as Alcaraz looks to defend his title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It will draw competitors from all around the world as nations pin their hopes on their top stars &#8211;\u00a0 but France will have to look elsewhere in the men&#8217;s singles after\u00a0Arthur Fils pulled out of the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Fils had picked up an injury last month in the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/french_open\/index.html\" id=\"mol-32aff400-4e8e-11f0-a210-9733e0efdf2d\" rel=\"noopener\">French Open<\/a>, withdrawing from his third round match at Roland Garos against\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/andrey-rublev\/index.html\" id=\"mol-32a8a100-4e8e-11f0-a210-9733e0efdf2d\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrey Rublev<\/a> because of a stress fracture in his back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The 21-year-old had overcome back issues to beat Jaume Munar in a four-hour and 25-minute match earlier in the week, ripping his shirt off in celebration. The next round, though, was a step too far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">And he has been unable to recover in time for Wimbledon, now officially pulling out of the tournament in a major blow to his season.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8a1dc4c23369505f\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99592657-0-image-a-23_1750503174642.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"France No 1 Arthur Fils has been forced to pull out of Wimbledon due to a back stress fracture\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">France No 1 Arthur Fils has been forced to pull out of Wimbledon due to a back stress fracture<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-7c9b73b8ff247ffa\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99592661-14834367-image-m-32_1750503404559.jpg\" height=\"455\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The star was forced to pull out of his third-round match at Roland Garros due to the injury\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The star was forced to pull out of his third-round match at Roland Garros due to the injury<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-6268fc9141cf28b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99592665-0-image-a-25_1750503180527.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Rival\u00a0Jaume Munar (left) had accused his opponent of faking injury, saying he had instead been suffering with cramps\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Rival\u00a0Jaume Munar (left) had accused his opponent of faking injury, saying he had instead been suffering with cramps<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Fils, who is currently ranked No 15 in the world, had said: &#8216;We&#8217;re going to try to see if I can be ready for Wimbledon. It&#8217;s a big question mark. After that, I&#8217;m 20, I still have time on the tour, it&#8217;s not the time to rush.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;On the contrary, if I can take a little more time to recover well and be ready to play the whole season on hard courts and the end of the year, that&#8217;s not bad.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Spaniard Munar had accused his opponent of not actually being injured, but suffering with cramps. That was before Fils has confirmed he had been struggling with a stress fracture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I had some issue with the back since a long time, and during the match against Munar it gets worse,&#8217; he said. &#8216;Then I did some exams. The exams were not good at all. Got some stress fracture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Yeah, whatever, we decide with the team it was better to stop now, because if I&#8217;m stopping now, I could stop for only four to six weeks. If I was pushing myself too much, I would probably stop for a couple of months.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;It&#8217;s the lower back. I got this issue a couple of times already when I was young. Yeah, L-5. So yeah, I got some issues like this in the past already.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He added:\u00a0&#8216;It&#8217;s an injury that happens quite often when you are a child. It&#8217;s a stress fracture injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;It happened to me twice. I had to wear a back brace. Then it healed. But also, my lower back is arched, so then I had a bone marrow edema. It&#8217;s coming back right now. So I have to find a way to cure that and to get past that.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        France&#8217;s No 1 tennis star withdraws from Wimbledon with stress fracture &#8211; weeks after French Open rival accused him of faking injury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The star was forced to pull out of his third round match at Roland Garros in May He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[39569,6359,92,393,2000,299,36,5066,4718,4295,93,1068,5068],"class_list":{"0":"post-202835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-andrey-rublev","9":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-french-open","16":"tag-jannik-sinner","17":"tag-novak-djokovic","18":"tag-sport","19":"tag-tennis","20":"tag-wimbledon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114722042302308305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}