Nick Kyrgios could not jump and could not move forward, and the hip injury he had struggled with through his first two matches at the United States Open had finally caught up with him.
“I guess it’s just a matter of time,” Kyrgios, of Australia, said after retiring from his third-round match Saturday night against Illya Marchenko. The No. 14-seeded Kyrgios was trailing, 6-4, 4-6, 1-6. He had dejectedly muttered about his injury and its effects through much of the third set, but had waited until the set ended to finally concede defeat.
“It’s never easy, of course,” Kyrgios, 21, said of stopping.