Tomic retires against Haas at Gerry Weber Open

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     Personally, this was the match up of the day for me across the Wimbledon warm up tournaments.  Tommy Haas has spent years of his career fighting injury, but today it was his opponent who had to retire.  The young Australian Bernard Tomic, an up and coming player to watch withdrew from the Gerry Weber Open today trailing the former world number 2 5-2.  The German and the crowd were shocked at the 19 year old’s decision to retire, having shown no signs of a struggle in the 22 minutes of play.  Haas said after the match that he “would have preferred to play a bit longer to try a few things out”.  Never the less, the walkover puts the German in the round of 16 for the tenth time at this tournament, no doubt adding to Haas’ good mood: earlier it was announced that the world number 87 had received a wild card into the Wimbledon main draw.  All the best to Haas this grass court season!