Jannik Sinner’s bid for a third consecutive Australian Open title got off to an anticlimactic start Tuesday night when Hugo Gaston retired midway through the first round with an undisclosed injury.

Sinner, the No. 2 seed, led 6-2, 6-1 in just over an hour when Gaston, ranked 93rd, signaled he could not continue. β€œI saw that he was not serving with a very high pace,” Sinner said.

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