INJURED RUUD CALLS OUT RANKINGS RAT RACE

CASPER RUUD called tennis rankings “a rat race” after playing the claycourt season on painkillers and limping out of the French Open with a knee injury.

- BY NEIL MCLEMAN IN PARIS

The double French Open finalist could barely move at the end of a 6-2 4-6 1-6 0-6 defeat to Portugal's Nuno Borges. “You're kind of forcing players to show up injured or sick,” he claimed.