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china's top player zhang zhizhen retired from the first round of the 2024 us open men's singles due to injury and missed the second round. this was his first grand slam elimination in the first round this season, and his immediate ranking dropped 7 places to 48th. facing britain's top men's singles player draper, zhang zhizhen was suppressed by his opponent throughout the game, especially his leg injury obviously affected the entire power chain. he was unable to control many balls even when his body was in position, and made many mistakes.

during the break between the second and third sets, zhang zhizhen called for a medical timeout and bandaged his left thigh muscle. when he was 0-4 behind, zhang zhizhen announced his retirement. from the technical statistics, his previously sharp serve became weak, with only one ace. in terms of the success rate of first and second serves, zhang zhizhen's success rate also obviously declined due to the injury.

after the match, zhang zhizhen recounted the process of his injury. he said that he felt a sudden pain in his left knee when he stepped on the ground while receiving a serve during training last thursday. he stopped training that day and recovered slowly on saturday, sunday and monday. he felt good after the first set, but the pain started to reappear in the second set, and then he called a medical timeout. because he knew about the injury before the match, he didn't force himself too much.