‘I can’t serve anymore’: Devastated Kyrgios retires from Wimbledon with abdominal injury

A disconsolate Nick Kyrgios has retired hurt from his third round Wimbledon match with Canadian 16th seed Felix Auger-Alliassime.

The Australian received treatment for an abdominal injury before retiring at 6-2, 1-6.

Kyrgios initially called the trainer towards the end of the opening set and had a medical time out while leading 4-1 but the treatment did little to help him.

Kyrgios had been at his scintillating best early in the match and was dominating the Canadian but when the second set began the real problems started.

Famous for his massive serve as much as his penchant for flair and drama the Australian could barely serve at over 110 miles per hour, he regularly clocks in at around 130 and again saw the trainer midway through the second set.

“I mean I could completely tear the f***ing s*** out of it,” he was heard saying on the live broadcast.

At the end of the set he called the trainer again and during a brief chat said: “It keeps getting worse, I can’t even roll my arm over, I can’t serve anymore.”

Kyrgios then walked to Auger-Alliassime and retired from the match.

The 26-year-old Australian said he was “devastated” to exit the tournament after a five-month break from competitive tennis.

“I knew the more I served, the worse it was getting. It was heartbreaking for me,” Kyrgios said.

“I’m enjoying myself. Going from the bad boy of tennis, all this stuff, to now one of the crowd favourites.

“I knew they wanted me to keep playing. I tried to give everything I absolutely could.

“I honestly thought the way I was playing I could have done some pretty cool things this week. It was tough to leave that crowd.”

The injury comes after Kyrigios admitted that he was in two minds about playing for Australia in the Tokyo Olympics later this month.

Auger-Allassiame felt for his opponent and wished him luck in his recovery.

“Sorry for Nick, he was playing so good it is really unfortunate for this to happen in front of a packed crowd … we both love playing here.”

“I hope it is nothing too serious and he is back on the US swing.”

Auger-Alliassime will next play either Taylor Fritz or Alexander Zverev.