{"id":914641,"date":"2026-10-03T12:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914641\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:28:13","slug":"world-no-1-sinner-withdraws-from-shanghai-masters-as-knee-injury-lingers-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914641\/","title":{"rendered":"World No 1 Sinner withdraws from Shanghai Masters as knee injury lingers | Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Italy\u2019s Jannik Sinner has not played since Wimbledon win in July, missing US Open and ongoing ATP 500 event in Beijing.<\/p>\n

Published On 3 Oct 20263 Oct 2026<\/p>\n

World number \u200cone Jannik Sinner has withdrawn from next \u2060week\u2019s Shanghai \u2060Masters tennis tournament as he continues his recovery from a knee injury that has sidelined him since winning \u2060the Wimbledon men\u2019s singles title<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n

The Italian, 25, has not played since his triumph at the All England \u2060Club, missing the North American hardcourt swing, including the US Open, and the ongoing ATP 500 event in Beijing.<\/p>\n

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\u201cUnfortunately, I won\u2019t be able to play at the \u200cRolex Shanghai Masters this year as I had hoped,\u201d Sinner wrote on Instagram on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always enjoy playing in front of the Shanghai fans and I\u2019m very sorry that I won\u2019t be able to do so next week.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Masters 1000 event runs from Wednesday to October 18 and features a \u2060strong field, led by four-time champion Novak Djokovic along with Alexander Zverev, Carlos Alcaraz, Daniil Medvedev, Ben Shelton, Felix Auger-Aliassime and defending \u2060champion Valentin Vacherot.<\/p>\n

Sinner won the Shanghai title in 2024, defeating Djokovic in \u2060the final.<\/p>\n

Sinner\u2019s absence could boost Zverev\u2019s \u2060push to finish the season as the world number one. The German, who was the French Open and US Open champion this year, has emerged as \u200cthe Italian\u2019s closest challenger.<\/p>\n

Zverev can move to the top of the rankings for the first time if he \u200cwins \u200cboth the China Open in Beijing and the Shanghai Masters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy\u2019s Jannik Sinner has not played since Wimbledon win in July, missing US Open and ongoing ATP 500…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[77,64,63,512,2328,588,85,747],"class_list":["post-914641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-asia-pacific","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-china","tag-italy","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914641","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=914641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}