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ATP/WTA Wire: Physio Load, Retirement History, and Late-Withdrawal Status — Six-Match Board

Six single-match markets in one call, keyed by the bound slug, carrying the pre-match availability picture for both sides. On a two-outcome match market a late withdrawal is not one input among many — it is the single largest price event that can occur, and it resolves the market before a ball is struck. The wire therefore separates the states that people collapse together and that have completely different market consequences: a withdrawal lodged before the order of play is published simply changes the draw, a withdrawal after publication produces a walkover, and a retirement mid-match is a different event again with different settlement behaviour. Feeding those states, the record carries the leading indicators that precede them: medical timeouts and on-court physio visits in the previous round, whether treatment was to a limb the player then continued to load, retirement and walkover counts over a trailing twelve months, elapsed minutes across the previous seventy-two hours, and whether a lucky-loser or alternate pathway is even open at this stage of the event. Method: physio and medical-timeout events are coded from match officiating logs and broadcast records, elapsed-minutes and retirement history from completed-match archives, and status changes from tournament order-of-play republications, on-site press notices, and player and event announcement channels polled independently, with every state change timestamped so a consumer can measure staleness rather than assume freshness.