Spaniard Rafael Nadal, with an abdominal injury, withdraws before his Wimbledon semi-final scheduled for Friday against Nick Kyrgios.
The player with 22 Grand Slam titles, who almost gave up in the quarter-finals, announced it at a hastily organized press conference on Thursday evening.
Winner of the first two Majors of the year (Australian Open and Roland-Garros), he suffered from an abdominal tear seven millimeters in length, the Spanish daily Marca reported on Thursday.
He thus lets Kyrgios access his first Grand Slam final without playing.