{"id":272660,"date":"2025-11-09T06:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272660\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T06:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:15:10","slug":"djokovic-withdraws-from-atp-finals-after-record-setting-athens-win-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272660\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic withdraws from ATP Finals after record-setting Athens win | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Novak Djokovic has pulled out of ATP Finals after beating Lorenzo Musetti, but not before setting new hardcourt mark.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 9 Nov 20259 Nov 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from the ATP Finals for the second year in a row, shortly after beating Lorenzo Musetti in a near three-hour final to win the Hellenic Championship on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic said a shoulder injury would prevent him from playing in the season-ending event for the top eight men\u2019s players that starts on Sunday in Turin, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really looking forward to competing in Turin and giving my best,\u201d Djokovic posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut after today\u2019s final in Athens, I\u2019m sad to share that I need to withdraw due to an ongoing injury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision means that Musetti will take his place, even though his loss to Djokovic initially handed the final qualifying spot to Felix Auger-Aliassime.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a024-time Grand Slam champion said he had been dealing with the injury throughout the tournament in Athens. Djokovic, who has won the ATP Finals seven times, also missed the tournament last year because of an injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the reason why I decided not to make a call: would I go to Turin or not earlier, because I wanted to see how the matches go, how I react,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter yesterday\u2019s [Friday] match, I was hoping that it was not going to flare up. But then today, even before the match, it was not great. I had to take all the strong medications to be able to play the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt there\u2019s no chance for me to go through the entire tournament in Turin with the required level of tennis when you\u2019re playing the best eight in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-4093947\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25312692513245-1762660224.jpg\" alt=\"Novak Djokovic in action.\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>Djokovic plays a shot against Lorenzo Musetti during the Hellenic Championship final [Yorgos Karahalis\/AP]Djokovic passes Federer on key milestone<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the Serb rallied for a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory over Musetti to clinch his 101st career title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn incredible battle,\u201d Djokovic said after the match. \u201cThree hours of a grueling match, physically\u2026 I\u2019m just very proud of myself to get through this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The last set featured five breaks before Djokovic clinched the victory with a service winner. Musetti has now lost his last six tour-level finals.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic is one of just three men to have racked up a century of titles. He still needs two to equal Roger Federer\u2019s 103, while Jimmy Connors heads the list with 109.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old\u2019s victory against Musetti set a men\u2019s record with his 72nd title on hard courts, one more than Federer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-4093949\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-11-08T184224Z_1829597087_UP1ELB81FYM0D_RTRMADP_3_TENNIS-ATHENS-1762660354.jpg\" alt=\"Novak Djokovic and Lorenzo Musetti react.\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>Djokovic, left, poses with the trophy after winning the final match, alongside runner up Lorenzo Musetti [Louiza Vradi\/Reuters]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic has pulled out of ATP Finals after beating Lorenzo Musetti, but not before setting new hardcourt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,2057,3898,44,588,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-272660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-greece","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272660","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=272660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}