{"id":272015,"date":"2025-11-08T23:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272015\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T23:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:07:10","slug":"novak-djokovic-withdraws-from-atp-finals-shoulder-injury-101st-career-title-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272015\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic withdraws from ATP Finals, shoulder injury, 101st career title, latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic has pulled out of the ATP Finals with a shoulder injury, shortly after winning his 101st career title, organisers said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old will be replaced in the Jimmy Connors Group by Lorenzo Musetti, who was beaten by Djokovic in the final of an ATP event in Athens.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic, a record 24-time Grand Slam winner, had been set to face Carlos Alcaraz at the season-ending Finals, which start on Sunday in Turin.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffWatch the biggest Aussie sports &amp; the best from overseas LIVE on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkgeneric-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-grc-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic had long since qualified, but kept everyone guessing until earlier this week about his participation in the prestigious tournament.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday the head of Italy\u2019s tennis federation Angelo Binaghi said that Djokovic had confirmed that he would play at the Finals.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761200708_112_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic withdrawing is good news for Musetti, who had previously needed to beat the Serb in Athens in order to snatch a spot at the Finals from Felix Auger-Aliassime.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Finals will have two Italians for the first time with defending champion Jannik Sinner in the Bjorn Borg Group with Auger-Aliassime, Ben Shelton and Alexander Zverev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic has pulled out of the ATP Finals with a shoulder injury, shortly after winning his 101st&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[5244,21540,64,63,21693,158075,24922,962,2057,5717,3898,115359,2328,754,158077,28258,3592,158080,62367,158079,3495,3595,85,747,158078,158076,119419,2062],"class_list":["post-272015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alexander-zverev","tag-athens","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ben-shelton","tag-bjorn-borg-group","tag-career-title","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-greece","tag-injury-setback","tag-italy","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-jimmy-connors-group","tag-lorenzo-musetti","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-semifinal-tennis-match","tag-serbia","tag-set-semi-win","tag-shoulder-injury","tag-southern-europe","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-federation","tag-tournament-semifinal-tennis","tag-turin","tag-western-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272015","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=272015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}