{"id":849742,"date":"2026-08-10T01:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T01:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/849742\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T01:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T01:56:22","slug":"jannik-sinner-pulls-out-of-cincinnati-tournament-to-focus-on-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/849742\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner pulls out of Cincinnati tournament to focus on US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Men&#8217;s tennis world number one Jannik Sinner has pulled out of the Cincinnati Open with a right knee injury, handing the Italian a blow in his preparations for this month&#8217;s US Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 24-year-old, who claimed his fifth grand slam title at Wimbledon last month, had also pulled out of the Canadian Open, a key warm-up event for the US Open at Flushing Meadows in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Sinner won the Cincinnati title in 2024 and finished runner-up to seven-times grand slam champion Carlos Alcaraz there last year.\u200b\u200c<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;After consulting with my doctors and my team, I have to announce that I need to withdraw from the Masters 1000 tournament in Cincinnati,&#8221; Sinner said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;My right knee has been bothering me and even though we have been working hard with my medical team, I have to accept that I&#8217;m not ready to compete yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very disappointed not to be able to play in Cincinnati \u2026 I can&#8217;t wait to be back next year and I&#8217;m now focusing on getting ready for the U.S. Open.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Sinner&#8217;s withdrawal further depletes the field in Cincinnati, with US Open champion Alcaraz also sidelined by a wrist injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Cincinnati Open main draw begins on August 13, while the US Open main draw gets underway on August 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s tennis world number one Jannik Sinner has pulled out of the Cincinnati Open with a right knee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,41765,1806,754,85,747,1751],"class_list":["post-849742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cincinnati-open","tag-grand-slam","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-us-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849742","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=849742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}