“I'm sorry for Alexander, it's terrible to end up like this. It's very hard... I wish him to recover very quickly from this injury. At the end of the day, it's a dream to come back to the final… We meet in the locker room, we sometimes train together, he's a very great champion who fights at a very high level
,” Nadal said in leaving the court at the microphone of France Télévisions.
Moments earlier, Zverev was forced to forfeit (7-6, 6-6) against him after injuring his ankle.
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