He was recalled to the bench to face the Springboks, but has suffered a torn thigh muscle.
Victor Hanescu also advanced when Dmitry Tursunov retired with a strained left thigh muscle trailing 6-4, 6-6 (3).
Taylor is out with a shoulder injury, Baird has a torn thigh muscle and Evans has an ongoing hamstring complaint.
Another gifted Germany midfielder, Hertha Berlin's Sebastian Deisler, is doubtful with a thigh muscle injury he sustained just after recovering from knee surgery.
His condition, patellar tendinitis, can be described as inflammation of the tendon that attaches the quadriceps (thigh muscle) to the tibia (shin bone).
The defender, 30, was originally expected to be out for a month after suffering a slight tear in his thigh muscle during training two weeks ago.
The Power Knee uses sensors (in contact with the thigh muscle, for example) to anticipate how the user will move, and then shifts itself into position.
James Fletcher, aged 32, from Chepstow, Wales, lost most of the thigh muscle in his right leg and a significant amount in his left leg after being injured by a grenade in Afghanistan in 2007.
But his hopes of ending the century on a high were shattered when a thigh muscle injury saw him pull out of the Paris Open in November, so ending his chances of booking a place in the season-ending ATP World Championships.
It was the 26-year-old's first start in more than two months after he was sidelined in March with a strained muscle in his right thigh.
His approach involves taking a muscle biopsy from a patient's thigh and then growing the tissue sample in the lab for three weeks until there are 600 million to 800 million of the myoblast cells.
Cramps (tightening of a muscle) happen most frequently in calf or thigh muscles but may affect other muscles such as those in the hands, feet, abdomen or rib cage.
He underwent three operations, including a 12-hour procedure transplanting a muscle from his back onto his leg and covering with skin grafts from his thigh.
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