Van Duijvenbode fears cruciate ligament injury after falling on stage: "Immediately felt something was wrong"

In one of the unfortunate, stand-out moments of the European Tour so far this year, Dirk van Duijvenbode ended up on the floor whilst doing his usual walk-on routine.

Despite styling out the fall and battling through the pain to win the match against Dylan Slevin in a last-leg decider, the Dutchman fears the injury could be a serious one. "I knew exactly what I felt," says Van Duijvenbode to AD.nl. "An MRI scan? Yes, I think so, but I already partly know. I hope it's not my posterior cruciate ligament. Last time I couldn't walk at all, now I can lean on it a bit "So we'll have to see. I can't say much about it yet, but I'm afraid of my meniscus or my posterior cruciate ligament."

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In the next round against Stephen Bunting, the pain would prove too much. "On Saturday I just threw up from the pain and now I don't feel very well. You just have pain all day long, that sucks."

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