Australian Jordan Thompson has suffered the double agony of a narrow defeat in the biggest semi-final of his career being compounded by a back injury in his battling Queen's Club Championship loss to Lorenzo Musetti.
Thompson, playing the first semi-final of an ATP 500 event in his 11-year career, put up a familiarly doughty fight to forge back after losing the first set on Saturday but eventually succumbed 6-3 3-6 6-3 to the graceful Italian, who'd also kayoed Australian No.1 Alex de Minaur earlier in the week.
Worse still, Thompson's big day ended with him having to leave Queen's to get treated for the back injury that he suffered early in the second set.
