He admitted he was used to playing through pain when discussing the injury on Wednesday evening but said there had been a significant change in the amount of pain it caused him during his quarter-final. “It’s obvious that I am not the kind of player that I didn’t have a lot of things in my tennis career, so I am used to have things and I am used to hold pain and to play with problems,” he said.
“Knowing that, when I feel something like I felt, that is because something is not going the proper way in abdominal, no? But let’s see. It’s obvious that today is nothing new. I had these feelings for a couple of days. Without a doubt, today was the worst day. Have been an important increase of pain and limitation. And that’s it, yeah. I managed to win that match. Let’s see what’s going on tomorrow.”