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Djokovic stunned by star's sudden mid-match exit

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Novak Djokovic survived a second-set tiebreaker successful the Astana Open semi-finals and soon aft his hostile Daniil Medvedev retired with a limb wounded connected Sunday morning.

Djokovic precocious astatine 4-6, 7-6 (6). He volition play third-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas successful the final.

“I truly anticipation that his wounded is thing excessively serious,” Djokovic said. “I cognize Daniil, he’s a large guy, he’s a fighter, he’s a large rival ... He told maine that helium pulled an adductor musculus successful his leg.

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“It was specified a adjacent match, peculiarly successful the 2nd set. I would astir apt accidental helium was a amended subordinate connected the tribunal successful some sets. I was warring and trying to find a way. I recovered a mode to triumph the second, but I’m conscionable bittersweet for the tourney and for these radical who were enjoying the battle, and for Daniil that it had to extremity this way.”

Going successful to the match, Medvedev had a 4-6 win-loss grounds against Djokovic, and they hadn’t met since past November successful the Paris final, wherever Djokovic won successful 3 sets.

In the different semi-final, Tsitsipas rallied to bushed fifth-seeded Andrey Rublev 4-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Rublev won the archetypal acceptable aft redeeming 3 interruption points. Tsitsipas broke successful the 10th crippled of the 2nd to level the acceptable score. He was much assertive the longer the lucifer went, and acold much decisive than Rublev successful the decider.

“My mentality benignant of changed,” Tsitsipas said. “I played with much of an assertive crippled benignant and didn't person thing by luck.

"I was conscious of each azygous determination I was trying to travel and execute and those work games worked retired beauteous well. They kept maine successful the crippled and gave maine that hope.”

He volition beryllium going for his 3rd rubric of the year, aft Monte Carlo and Mallorca, successful his sixth last of the season.

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