{"id":119029,"date":"2025-08-04T20:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T20:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/119029\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T20:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T20:14:09","slug":"novak-djokovic-withdraws-from-the-cincinnati-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/119029\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic withdraws from the Cincinnati Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Novak Djokovic<\/a> pulled out of the Cincinnati Open on Monday for what officially was listed as a \u201cnon-medical\u201d reason, meaning he will head to the U.S. Open<\/a> without having played a match in about 1 1\/2 months.<\/p>\n

The 24-time Grand Slam champion<\/a> hasn\u2019t competed since losing in the Wimbledon semifinals<\/a> to eventual champion Jannik Sinner on July 11.<\/p>\n

That straight-set defeat against Sinner at the All England Club came two days after the 38-year-old Djokovic took what he described as a \u201cnasty\u201d and \u201cawkward\u201d fall in the last game of his quarterfinal victory<\/a>. Djokovic clearly was compromised against Sinner and unable to move at his best; he received treatment on his upper left leg from a trainer.<\/p>\n

Djokovic\u2019s withdrawal from Cincinnati follows his decision to sit out the Toronto Masters that concludes this week. He cited a groin injury for that absence.<\/p>\n

His previous event before Wimbledon was the French Open, where he also lost to Sinner in the semifinals.<\/p>\n

Djokovic will have no hard-court tournament preparation before the U.S. Open singles competition begins on Aug. 24.<\/p>\n

He has won four championships at Flushing Meadows, most recently in 2023<\/a>. That was also his most recent Grand Slam trophy.<\/p>\n

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AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Novak Djokovic pulled out of the Cincinnati Open on Monday for what officially was listed…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[10595,1824,9125,1574,1573,62,1464,62213,67,132,68,14374],"class_list":{"0":"post-119029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-cincinnati","9":"tag-jannik-sinner","10":"tag-novak-djokovic","11":"tag-oh-state-wire","12":"tag-ohio","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-u-s-open-tennis-championships","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-wimbledon-championships"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114972332079259223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}