Barcelona (Spain), April 14 -- Britain's Jack Draper retired in the third set of his first-round match against Tomas Martin Etcheverry at the Barcelona Open because of a knee injury.
Draper, playing his first match of the clay-court season, won the first set against Argentina's Etcheverry 6-3 but began to have difficulty with his movement and lost the second 6-3.
The 24-year-old received attention from a physio and had tape applied to an area below his right knee shortly before the deciding set. His serve was broken twice by Etcheverry in the third set and, after struggling to get around the court, he conceded the contest at 4-1 down.
Draper, ranked 28th in the world, has been cautious during a return from an arm injury and pulled out of...