TORONTO: A nagging left foot injury forced Rafael Nadal out of the ATP Toronto Masters on Tuesday as top seed Daniil Medvedev rallied to reach the third round.
Nadal, a five-time champion in Canada, pulled the plug on his participation before his scheduled second-round opener with plans to return to Spain for treatment of the injury which kept him from Wimbledon and the Tokyo Olympics.
“I’ve had this issue for a couple of months,” he said. “It is not a happy situation after all the success that I had here in Canada.
“I need to go back (to Mallorca) and try to find a way to be better again. With this pain, I’m not able to enjoy…
