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MALAGA, SPAIN – NOVEMBER 25: Jannik Sinner of Italy celebrates winning match point during the … More Semi-Final match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia in the Davis Cup Final at Palacio de Deportes Jose Maria Martin Carpena on November 25, 2023 in Malaga, Spain. (Photo by Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images for ITF)<\/p>\n
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The Canadian Open lost some major star power on Sunday when Wimbledon champion Jannik Sinner<\/a>, French Open champion Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and 24-time major champion Novak Djokovic<\/a> pulled out of the event.<\/p>\n They followed world No. 5 Jack Draper among top men\u2019s players to withdraw from the tournament, which from July 27-Aug. 7 at Sobeys Stadium in Toronto.<\/p>\n The tournament reported that Sinner and Djokovic are out, while Marca reported<\/a> that Alcaraz was also withdrawing.<\/p>\n No. 3 Alexander Zverev is still in the event as are other Top 10 stars including Taylor Fritz, Lorenzo Musetti and Holger Rune, plus Canadians Denis Shapovalov and Felix Auger-Aliassime.<\/p>\n Sinner, Alcaraz, Djokovic and Draper are still scheduled to play the Cincinnati Open<\/a>, the last major warm-up event for the U.S. Open. Cincinnati runs Aug. 5-18 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center.<\/p>\n Sinner, who beat Alcaraz for his first Wimbledon title earlier this month, is the defending champion at that event. Djokovic won it three times (2023, 2020, 2018).<\/p>\n \u201cWe look forward to welcoming the world\u2019s best tennis stars to compete for the Cincinnati Open title in August,\u201d said Tournament Director Bob Moran. \u201cWe have received a lot of excitement from the players about coming back to see our transformed campus and experiencing the new player amenities. Players and fans alike will enjoy the re-imagined venue and world-class atmosphere as the sport\u2019s best compete for the title.\u201d<\/p>\n TOP AMERICANS TO PLAY BILLIE JEAN KING CUP<\/p>\n MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – JANUARY 25: Madison Keys of the United States poses with the Daphne Akhurst … More Memorial Cup after the Women’s Singles Trophy Presentation following the Women’s Singles Final against Aryna Sabalenka during day 14 of the 2025 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 25, 2025 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Darrian Traynor\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n Getty Images<\/p>\n The USTA and Billie Jean King Cup captain Lindsay Davenport announced that Jessica Pegula, Madison Keys<\/a>, Emma Navarro, Hailey Baptiste and Taylor Townsend will represent the USA in the 2025 Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Finals, to be played September 16-21 at the Shenzhen Bay Sports Centre Arena in Shenzhen, China.<\/p>\n Coco Gauff, the top-ranked American woman, will not compete.<\/p>\n Billie Jean King Cup is the World Cup of Women\u2019s Tennis, and the Finals \u2013 an eight-nation, knockout-style bracket \u2013 will crown this year\u2019s champion. The U.S. will play Kazakhstan in its quarterfinal tie on Thursday, September 18, with the winner advancing to play the winner of Great Britain and Japan in the semifinals. Each tie will be a best-of-three competition with two singles matches and one doubles match, played on an indoor hard court. The full field, schedule and further information is available at billiejeankingcup.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n The United States is the all-time leader with 18 Billie Jean King Cup titles and will hope to add to that this year by bringing a veteran team with three players ranked in the Top 11 in singles, the world doubles No. 2 and one of its stars from this year\u2019s Qualifying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MALAGA, SPAIN – NOVEMBER 25: Jannik Sinner of Italy celebrates winning match point during the … More Semi-Final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-11627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}