{"id":84524,"date":"2025-08-21T08:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/84524\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:34:07","slug":"nishikori-to-miss-u-s-open-because-of-back-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/84524\/","title":{"rendered":"Nishikori to miss U.S. Open because of back injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Japan&#8217;s Kei Nishikori said Wednesday he will miss the U.S. Open tennis championships starting this weekend because of a back injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hi fans, unfortunately I will not be ready for the U.S. Open yet,&#8221; the former world No. 4 wrote in an X post. &#8220;I had an MRI taken of my back and it&#8217;s not 100 percent healed yet. Working hard to be back on court soon. Thanks for the support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old, currently ranked 88th, has struggled with injuries in recent years. The year&#8217;s last Grand Slam tournament begins Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Nishikori lost to Tommy Paul in the second round of the Australian Open in January before sitting out the French Open and Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to the ATP Tour in early August at the Cincinnati Open but withdrew from a Challenger event in Sumter, South Carolina, the following week, with a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8211; Japan&#8217;s Kei Nishikori said Wednesday he will miss the U.S. Open tennis championships starting this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-84524","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\/84524","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=84524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}