Tennis – ATP 500 – Dubai Championships – Dubai Tennis Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates – February 27, 2026 Russia’s Daniil Medvedev celebrates after winning his semi final match against Canada’s Felix Auger Aliassime REUTERS
DUBAI, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Daniil Medvedev was awarded the Dubai Tennis Championships title after his opponent Tallon Griekspoor withdrew due to an injury he suffered in the semi-finals, tournament organisers said on Saturday.
Russian Medvedev was chasing a second title in Dubai after he beat Felix Auger-Aliassime in the last four, and the former world number one reached the final without dropping a set.
Griekspoor said after his straight-sets win over Andrey Rublev that he was struggling with a hamstring injury and would have retired had he lost the second set.
“Not how I want to win a final. Hoping the injury for Griekspoor is not too bad and wishing him a speedy recovery,” Medvedev wrote on X.
Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru;, editing by Ed Osmond
