{"id":274030,"date":"2025-11-09T21:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274030\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T21:26:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:26:21","slug":"novak-djokovic-pulls-out-of-atp-finals-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274030\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic pulls out of ATP Finals with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-player-guid=\"4a27bb1c-2422-55c3-208b-9e9d8c1f30af\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=296\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> has pulled out of the ATP Finals for the second year in a row, shortly after beating <a data-player-guid=\"9b79e506-da5f-e10a-6b4e-9a2a93ed34bb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3764\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> in a near three-hour final.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic said a shoulder injury would prevent him from playing in the season-ending event for the top eight men&#8217;s players that starts on Sunday in Turin, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sad to share that I need to withdraw due to an ongoing injury,&#8221; Djokovic said in a post on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The decision means Musetti will take his place, even though his loss to Djokovic initially handed the final qualifying spot to <a data-player-guid=\"103da403-af60-430e-014c-dc9c904d6b04\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3209\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic has won the ATP Finals seven times but the 24-time Grand Slam champion also missed the tournament last year because of an injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic has pulled out of the ATP Finals for the second year in a row, shortly after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-274030","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-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274030","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=274030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}