PARIS: Dutch fourth seed Kiki Bertens, one of the favourites for the French Open, retired from her second round match through illness on Wednesday .
The 27-year-old, a semi-finalist in 2016, was trailing Slovakia's Viktoria Kuzmova 3-1, 40-15 when she called for the doctor, complaining she was suffering from"shaking and no energy".Bertens was seen as a potential champion in Paris having won the Madrid title without dropping a set, the first woman to achieve the feat.
"I felt fine yesterday in practice but this morning I woke up at three o'clock. I was vomiting and had diarrhoea all day," said Bertens. "I was a little bit better before the match but it started again when I was warming up. There was no energy left."Kuzmova goes on to face either Britain's Johanna Konta or Lauren Davis of the United States for a place in the last 16.
World number 46 Kuzmova had already defeated Bertens in Dubai this year before the Dutchwoman gained revenge in Miami.
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