CINCINNATI \u2014\u00a0Novak Djokovic\u00a0pulled out of the Cincinnati Open on Monday for what officially was listed as a \u201cnon-medical\u201d reason, meaning he will head to\u00a0the U.S. Open\u00a0without having played a match in about 1 1\/2 months.<\/p>\n
The\u00a024-time Grand Slam champion\u00a0hasn’t competed since\u00a0losing in the Wimbledon semifinals\u00a0to eventual champion Jannik Sinner on July 11.<\/p>\n
That straight-set defeat against Sinner at the All England Club came two days after the 38-year-old Djokovic took what he described as a \u201cnasty\u201d and \u201cawkward\u201d fall in\u00a0the last game of his quarterfinal victory. Djokovic clearly was compromised against Sinner and unable to move at his best; he received treatment on his upper left leg from a trainer.<\/p>\n
Djokovic’s withdrawal from Cincinnati follows his decision to sit out the Toronto Masters that concludes this week. He cited a groin injury for that absence.<\/p>\n
His previous event before Wimbledon was the French Open, where he also lost to Sinner in the semifinals.<\/p>\n
Djokovic will have no hard-court tournament preparation before the U.S. Open singles competition begins on Aug. 24.<\/p>\n
He has won four championships at Flushing Meadows,\u00a0most recently in 2023. That was also his most recent Grand Slam trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2014\u00a0Novak Djokovic\u00a0pulled out of the Cincinnati Open on Monday for what officially was listed as a \u201cnon-medical\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-45668","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\/45668","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=45668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}