{"id":822469,"date":"2026-07-25T06:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T06:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/822469\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T06:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T06:53:11","slug":"sinner-and-djokovic-pull-out-of-the-canadian-open-joining-alcaraz-on-the-sidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/822469\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner and Djokovic pull out of the Canadian Open, joining Alcaraz on the sidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">Wimbledon champion Jannik Sinner and 24-time \u2060Grand Slam winner Novak Djokovic have withdrawn from next month&#8217;s \u200cUS Open tune-up event in Montreal, tournament \u200corganisers said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/sinner-jannik\/6HdC3z4H\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sinner<\/a>\u2019s \u200cwithdrawal is expected to make world \u200cnumber two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/zverev-alexander\/dGbUhw9m\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Zverev<\/a> and Canadian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/auger-aliassime-felix\/CzXh4LAb\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u200cFelix Auger-Aliassime<\/a> the first and second seeds at the tournament which \u200cruns from August 1st \u2060to 13th.<\/p>\n<p>Seven-time \u200cGrand Slam champion and world number \u200bthree <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/alcaraz-garfia-carlos\/UkhgIFEq\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> was ruled out already with a \u200bwrist injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter carefully considering all the factors together with my team, \u2060we have \u200bmade the difficult decision to withdraw from Montr\u00e9al. It is never easy to miss such an \u200cimportant event, but we believe this is the right decision to prioritize my health. I\u2019m disappointed not to be there, but I look forward to returning to Montreal in the future,\u201d Sinner said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old \u200cItalian defended his Wimbledon title \u200bthis month with a four-set \u200cwin over German Zverev to claim his fifth Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/djokovic-novak\/AZg49Et9\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Djokovic<\/a>, 39, reached the Wimbledon semi-finals, where Sinner defeated him \u2060in three \u2060sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wimbledon champion Jannik Sinner and 24-time \u2060Grand Slam winner Novak Djokovic have withdrawn from next month&#8217;s \u200cUS Open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-822469","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\/822469","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=822469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}