Arthur Fils says scans are clear after Rome retirement, “back to work for Paris”
Arthur Fils has said the scans taken after his Rome retirement are clear, and he is already back in training for Roland-Garros.
Arthur Fils, 2026 | © Madrid Trophy Promotion
Arthur Fils has said that medical tests carried out after his retirement at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia have come back clear, and that he is already training again ahead of Roland-Garros. The 21-year-old French No. 1 made the announcement in a social media post on Monday.
“Felt something during the match in Rome. I ran all the tests with the team and everything is clear,” Fils wrote. “Already back to work for Paris. Thanks for the messages.”
Fils retired from his second-round match against the Italian qualifier Andrea Pellegrino on Saturday, trailing 4-0 and unable to continue after receiving in-match treatment. Speaking to L’Équipe afterwards, he had described pain in his hip from the second game of the match and confirmed he had stopped to avoid taking any risk before Roland-Garros, which begins in two weeks.
The all-clear matters
The clean scans are the answer the French camp had been waiting for. Fils has been one of the standout players of the clay swing – he won in Barcelona and reached the Madrid semi-finals two weeks ago before losing to Jannik Sinner – and arrives at Roland-Garros as a genuine outsider in a draw missing the defending champion Carlos Alcaraz.
The all-clear matters because of where Fils was a year ago. A stress fracture in his lower back at Roland-Garros 2025, where he was ranked at his career-high of No. 14, ended his season after a premature comeback attempt in Toronto, and the French camp spent the back half of last year watching him slip into protected-ranking territory. The return finally came in February 2026 in Montpellier, eight months after the injury.
