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Eighth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime was forced to retire at the beginning of his fourth set against Nuno Borges in the first round.

After the Canadian called the physio, he struggled to move as he attempted to play on before he had to call time on his campaign prematurely.

He later revealed he suffered from cramp, explaining: “I’m okay, but I just started cramping at the start of the third set. Yeah, it became very difficult to be competitive at this level. I tried for a set, but yeah, wasn’t possible today.

“Obviously it hurts even more, because you know, if I was self-aware and I was, like, well, I wasn’t really ready or I wasn’t doing everything, then you have to be honest with yourself.

“But even with being honest with myself, I’m not totally finding the reasons why this is happening. It wasn’t happening in the past, so I’ll have to figure it out.”