Injured Roddick out of French Open

PARIS: Andy Roddick, the fifth seed, was knocked out of the French Open on Tuesday when he retired from his first round match with Spain's Alberto Martin.

The American was trailing 6-4, 7-5, 1-0 when he called it quits.

Roddick, who was a second round loser on his last two visits to Roland Garros and has never got beyond the third round in six attempts, was always destined to struggle having picked up an ankle injury at the World Team Cup in Dusseldorf last week.

There were serious doubts over his fitness in Paris and his mood would not have been improved by the cold, heavy Suzanne Lenglen court which greeted him.

But they are just the sort of conditions that 27-year-old Martin enjoys and the journeyman baseliner seized his opportunity to break in the fifth game on his way to taking the first set.

Roddick was broken in the first game of the second set and even though he levelled to 3-3, he continued to struggle and dropped the second set.

After one game of the third, the former US Open winner and world number one had had enough and walked off after 1hr 41min of action.

Martin now faces German qualifier Dieter Kindlmann for a place in the third round.