The Basel tournament has lost one of its attractions and second-seeded Andy Murray, who has retired before even debuting for a pain in her right buttock that point to problems of sciatica. The Briton will be replaced by Marco Chiudinelli.
Andy Murray had played the last two years in Valencia, where he won the 2009 edition, but this season he decided to play in Basel, sharing the stage with Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer among others. The Briton, who took the title in Bangkok, Tokyo and Shanghai in an extraordinary tour of Asia, has had to decline the option of playing in Swiss land by physical problems. As explained by the Scottish press conference on Tuesday woke at dawn with a severe pain in her right buttock, which were sent bit by bit, but which not able to recover before his debut against the Dutchman Robin Haase . "It's a pain you never felt before," confessed the protagonist in a press conference. Although it has yet to undergo more medical tests to clarify the extent of this injury, everything indicates that it is a sciatic nerve problem. Andy is scheduled to travel Thursday to Paris, where next week's Masters is held the last 1,000 of the season and recovered based on anti-inflammatory treatment.
Meanwhile, Roger Federer , defending champion in effect, passed the quarter-finals after beating Finland's Jarkko Nieminen by a score of 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 in one hour and thirty-five minutes. On the twelfth Nieminen Federer win in twelve meetings between the two.
The Murray is not the only casualty suffered by the tournament Federer in the day on Wednesday, as the Serbian Janko Tipsarevic has also had to retire from his match against Germany's Florian Mayer when the Teutonic dominated the first set by 5-1 . For the rest of the day's victories include Dutch Robin Haase on local Marco Chiudinelli (6-2, 7-6), and Polish Lukasz Kubot over German Tobias Kamke (5-7, 7-5, 6 -2).
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