Nishikori withdraws from Wimbledon with calf injury

Nishikori withdraws from Wimbledon with calf injury

 

[caption id="attachment_22262" align="alignnone" width="400"] (Japan's Kei Nishikori serves against Italy's Simone Bolelli during their first round match of the Wimbledon Championships in southwest London, on 29 Monday June 2015 The Roman. (© AFP/File Leon Neal))[/caption]

 

London (AFP) - Japan's fifth seed Kei Nishikori pulled out of Wimbledon on Wednesday after a calf injury prevented him from playing his second round clash.

 

Nishikori was scheduled to face Colombia's Santiago Giraldo for a place in the last 32.

 

The 25-year-old first suffered the injury in Halle last month when he was forced to retire in the semi-finals.

 

He had needed five sets to beat Simone Bolelli in the first round at Wimbledon on Monday and felt the injury again.

 

"It got worse in the fifth set of that match, it hurt so much," said Nishikori.

 

"It hurt to walk and run today so I decided not to play."

 

(BUSINESS INSIDER, 1 Wednesday July 2015 The Roman)