The US Open sent journalists covering the tournament a short press release on Friday announcing Gilles Simon’s withdrawal, “For medical reasons”. The organizer has not yet provided more details on the reason for this abandonment. He was to face in the first round Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, seeded No.29.
Since 2006, the Niçois had missed the US Open only once, in 2013, due to the after-effects of whooping cough he had during the summer.
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