Tennis: Arthur Gea throws in the towel in the quarter-finals of the Shanghai Masters 1000

Sad epilogue. Visibly affected in the adductors, the Vauclusian threw in the towel against the Spaniard. The 56th in the world had taken a medical time out and had his hip and right leg manipulated.

At the age of 21, Gea played his first Masters 1000 final draw in Shanghai. He notably eliminated world No. 4 Ben Shelton in the third round, for the first match of his career against a member of the top 10. He followed up by beating world No. 15 Jakub Mensik in the round of 16.

Despite his abrupt end to the race in Shanghai, the eighth finalist of the last US Open is guaranteed to enter the top 50 for the first time in the next ATP ranking. Winner during the summer of his first ATP title in Los Cabos (Mexico), he is registered in the coming weeks for the ATP 250 tournament in Lyon (October 19-25), the ATP 500 in Vienna (October 26-November 1) then in qualifying for the Masters 1000 in Paris (November 2-8). Davidovich, for his part, will return to the top 20 at the end of the tournament, having climbed to 12th in the ATP rankings at the start of the year.

For his fourth Masters 1000 semi-final, the Spaniard will face future world No. 1 Alexander Zverev or Australian Alex de Minaur (9th) on Saturday.