Australian Alex de Minaur has a tear in his hip cartilage, which gives Novak Djokovic a walkover into the Wimbledon semifinals.
WIMBLEDON, England — Alex de Minaur heard a crack close to the end of his fourth-round match Monday and knew immediately something was wrong. The 25-year-old Aussie had just reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals for the first time in his career but from across the court looked to be telling the team in his player box, “I can’t play.”
De Minaur, who was seeded ninth, withdrew ahead of his quarterfinal match against Novak Djokovic on Wednesday morning after a scan confirmed that he had a tear in his hip cartilage, handing the 37-year-old Djokovic a walkover into the semifinals. Djokovic will face either the 13th-seeded American Taylor Fritz or the 25th-seeded Italian Lorenzo Musetti, who face off on Court No. 1 later today.
De Minaur is a genial tour veteran who is in the middle of perhaps his best season to date, having made the quarterfinals of the French Open and a clay-court tournament in Monte Carlo that is rated one level beneath a Grand Slam.Instead of battling Djokovic, he joins a long list of players who have had to retire or withdraw due to injury this fortnight, including third-seeded Aryna Sabalenka, Madison Keys and Grigor Dimitrov.
One player having no issues with fitness? That would be Djokovic, who despite having surgery to repair the torn medial meniscusis still in the hunt to tie Roger Federer’s record of eight Wimbledon championships, the most won by a man, and a record 25th Grand Slam titles, which would be the most ever won by a man or woman. He is currently tied with Margaret Court, who won most of her major titles before the start of the Open era in 1968.
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