No. 5 Kei Nishikori withdraws from Wimbledon with calf injury

No. 5 Kei Nishikori withdraws from Wimbledon 2015 with calf injury.

Courtney Nguyen | Jul 1, 2015

No. 5 Kei Nishikori withdraws from Wimbledon with calf injury /

LONDON – No. 5 Kei Nishikori withdrew from Wimbledon prior to his second round match on Wednesday, due to a left calf injury. Nishikori injured his leg three weeks ago at a warm-up tournament in Halle, Germany, which forced him to retire in the semifinals. The withdrawal gives Santiago Giraldo a walkover into the third round.

"I thought it was really going to be okay," Nishikori said, referring to his injury. "But [in my] last match in the the fifth set I was hurting too much. I try this two days, and warmup today. But it was hurting just walking and running, so I decided not to play."

Nishikori does not know the extent of the injury but he has a month before his next tournament at the Citi Open in Washington D.C. "I thought I was playing well on grass. So very unfortunate to lose this chance. But I'll try to keep it up. Hopefully I can do well in the U.S. series."

Published Jul 1, 2015

COURTNEY NGUYEN

Contributor, SI.com Nguyen is a freelance writer for SI.com, providing full coverage of professional tennis both on and off the court. Her content has become a must-read for fans and insiders to stay up-to-date with a sport that rarely rests. She has appeared on radio and TV talk shows all over the world and is one of the co-hosts of No Challenges Remaining, a weekly podcast available on iTunes. Nguyen graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received a law degree from the University of California, Davis in 2002. She lives in the Bay Area.