{"id":270667,"date":"2025-11-08T20:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/270667\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T20:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:22:08","slug":"lorenzo-musetti-to-compete-in-nitto-atp-finals-following-novak-djokovics-withdrawal-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/270667\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorenzo Musetti to compete in Nitto ATP Finals following Novak Djokovic&#8217;s withdrawal | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        ATP Tour<br \/>\n    Musetti to compete in Nitto ATP Finals following Djokovic&#8217;s withdrawal<\/p>\n<p>Season finale begins Sunday in Turin<\/p>\n<p>November 08, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/musetti-nitto-atp-finals-2025-news-1.jpg\" alt=\"Lorenzo Musetti will compete in the Nitto ATP Finals for the first time.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Julian Finney\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>        Lorenzo Musetti will compete in the Nitto ATP Finals for the first time.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/lorenzo-musetti\/m0ej\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> will compete in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/nitto-atp-finals\/605\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> for the first time following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/novak-djokovic\/d643\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a>\u2019s withdrawal due to a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p>Musetti will replace Djokovic in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/jimmy-connors\/c044\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Connors<\/a> Group as a direct acceptance. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/alexander-bublik\/bk92\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Bublik<\/a> is now the first alternate.<\/p>\n<p>It has been the best season of Musetti\u2019s career, with the 23-year-old reaching his first ATP Masters 1000 final in Monte-Carlo. He then advanced to the semi-finals at Madrid, Rome and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/roland-garros\/520\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roland Garros<\/a> to entrench himself in Turin contention.<\/p>\n<p>After making the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/us-open\/560\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a> quarter-finals, Musetti also made the Chengdu final, Vienna semi-finals and the Athens final.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time two Italian singles players have qualified for the same edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/nitto-atp-finals\/605\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nitto ATP Finals<\/a>. In 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/matteo-berrettini\/bk40\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matteo Berrettini<\/a> qualified and withdrew during round-robin play, allowing Sinner to enter the field as an alternate.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic this year tied the record for most\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/nitto-atp-finals\/605\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nitto ATP Finals<\/a>\u00a0qualifications, joining\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/roger-federer\/f324\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Federer<\/a>\u00a0with 18.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was really looking forward to competing in Turin and giving my best but after today\u2019s final in Athens, I\u2019m sad to share that I need to withdraw due to an ongoing injury,&#8221; Djokovic wrote on social media. &#8220;I\u2019m truly sorry to the fans who were hoping to see me play \u2014 your support means so much. I wish all the players an amazing tournament, and I can\u2019t wait to be back on the court with you all soon!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATP Tour Musetti to compete in Nitto ATP Finals following Djokovic&#8217;s withdrawal Season finale begins Sunday in Turin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-270667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270667","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=270667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}