{"id":823053,"date":"2026-07-25T14:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823053\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:05:13","slug":"sinner-djokovic-withdraw-from-us-open-tune-up-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823053\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner, Djokovic withdraw from US Open tune-up in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tMONTREAL: Wimbledon champion \u200cJannik Sinner and 24-times Grand Slam winner Novak Djokovic have withdrawn from next month\u2019s US Open tune-up event in Montreal, tournament organizers said on Friday.<br \/>Sinner\u2019s withdrawal is expected to make world number two Alexander Zverev and Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime the first and \u200csecond seeds \u200cat the tournament which \u200cruns \u2060from August 1 \u2060to 13.<br \/>Seven-times Grand Slam champion and world number three Carlos Alcaraz was ruled out already with a wrist injury.<br \/>\u201cAfter carefully considering all the factors together \u2060with my team, we have \u200cmade the \u200cdifficult decision to withdraw from Montr\u00e9al. \u200cIt is never easy to \u200cmiss such an important event, but we believe this is the right decision to prioritize my health. I\u2019m \u200cdisappointed not to be there, but I look forward \u2060to \u2060returning to Montreal in the future,\u201d Sinner said in a statement.<br \/>The 24-year-old Italian defended his Wimbledon title this month with a four-set win over German Zverev to claim his fifth Grand Slam title.<br \/>Djokovic, 39, reached the Wimbledon semifinals, where Sinner defeated him in three sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL: Wimbledon champion \u200cJannik Sinner and 24-times Grand Slam winner Novak Djokovic have withdrawn from next month\u2019s US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-823053","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\/823053","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=823053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}