Nick Kyrgios Pulls Out Injured Just Before Japan Open Quarter-Final
Nick Kyrgios withdrew from the Japan Open just minutes before his quarter-final on Friday with a sore left knee, calling it "heartbreaking". The mercurial Australian star had been scheduled to play third-seeded American Taylor Fritz, who will now play Canada's Denis Shapovalov, seeded seventh, in the last four on Saturday. At a hastily announced press conference when the match was due to begin, world number 20 Kyrgios said he had "been playing amazing tennis all year" but it had been physically taxing.


