{"id":488062,"date":"2026-02-18T14:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/488062\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:17:18","slug":"lorenzo-musetti-withdraws-from-acapulco-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/488062\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorenzo Musetti withdraws from Acapulco | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Player News<br \/>\n    Musetti withdraws from Acapulco<\/p>\n<p>Italian is still recovering from psoas muscle injury sustained at Australian Open<\/p>\n<p>February 17, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/musetti-acapulco-2026-withdrawal.jpg\" alt=\"Lorenzo Musetti is a two-time ATP Tour champion.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Peter Staples<\/p>\n<p>        Lorenzo Musetti is a two-time ATP Tour champion.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/lorenzo-musetti\/m0ej\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> has withdrawn from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/acapulco\/807\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Abierto Mexicano Telcel presentado por HSBC<\/a> in Acapulco. <\/p>\n<p> The Italian is still recovering from the psoas muscle injury that forced him to retire from his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/australian-open\/580\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open<\/a> quarter-final against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/novak-djokovic\/d643\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> last month. The No. 5 in the PIF ATP Rankings, Musetti led Djokovic by two sets in Melbourne when he was forced to retire. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cHello everyone. I have to communicate that unfortunately I cannot compete in Acapulco,\u201d said Musetti in an Instragram video in Spanish. \u201cMy body has to recover more and the recuperation is going to take longer. I was really looking forward to returning to Mexico and playing there. I send a hug to all the fans in Mexico and the tournament, and I hope you have a great time.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> Musetti is currently 7-2 for the 2026 season, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index. The 23-year-old, who ended last year by making his debut at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/nitto-atp-finals\/605\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nitto ATP Finals<\/a>, began this year by reaching the final in Hong Kong before his run to the last eight in Melbourne. <\/p>\n<p>You May Also Like: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/musetti-hot-shot-of-the-month-january-2026-winner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Musetti&#8217;s magic earns January&#8217;s Hot Shot of the Month award<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Player News Musetti withdraws from Acapulco Italian is still recovering from psoas muscle injury sustained at Australian Open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-488062","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\/488062","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=488062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}