{"id":14093,"date":"2025-07-21T23:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T23:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14093\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T23:56:08","slug":"alcaraz-joins-sinner-djokovic-as-high-profile-players-dropping-out-of-mens-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14093\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz joins Sinner, Djokovic as high-profile players dropping out of men&#8217;s side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Carlos Alcaraz has withdrawn from the National Bank Open, depriving the men\u2019s tennis tournament in Toronto of yet another star player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alcaraz said in a statement issued by tournament organizers Monday that the tournament comes too soon after his appearance in the Wimbledon final on July 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The world No. 2 announced his withdrawal the day after top-ranked Jannik Sinner, 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic and world No. 5 Jack Draper pulled out of the ATP Masters-level hardcourt event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sinner, who defeated Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final, said he injured his elbow in a fall at the All England Club. He won his first Masters title in Toronto in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Djokovic blamed a groin injury for his withdrawal from an event he has won four times, while Draper is recovering from a forearm injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The women\u2019s NBO tournament in Montreal has also had high-profile players withdraw, including world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The NBO tournaments start Saturday with one-day qualifying events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 21, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Carlos Alcaraz has withdrawn from the National Bank Open, depriving the men\u2019s tennis tournament in Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-14093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}