Kyle Edmund withdrew from the French Open evening with muscle damage to his stomach. He was due to play the Australian Nick Kyrgios in the second round , a match that would have consolidated his entry into the ATP top 100 and put him in place to challenge Andy Murray in the third round.
The Yorkshireman played outstandingly well to beat the veteran Frenchman Stéphane Robert in a hostile environment over five sets on an outer court on Monday evening and looked primed to take on Kyrgios, who recently added Roger Federer to Rafa Nadal as a top-10 scalp.