July 24 (Reuters) – Wimbledon \u2060champion Jannik Sinner and 24-times Grand Slam \u2060winner Novak Djokovic have withdrawn from next \u200cmonth’s U.S. Open tune-up event in Montreal, tournament organisers said on Friday.<\/p>\n
Sinner\u2019s withdrawal is expected to make world number \u200btwo Alexander Zverev and Canadian \u2060Felix Auger-Aliassime the \u2060first and second seeds at the tournament which runs \u2060from \u200cAugust 1 to 13.<\/p>\n
Seven-times Grand Slam champion and world number three Carlos \u2060Alcaraz was ruled out already with a \u200bwrist injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter \u200ccarefully considering all the factors together with \u2060my team, \u200bwe have made the difficult decision to withdraw from Montr\u00e9al. It is never easy to miss \u2060such an important event, but we \u200bbelieve this is the right decision to prioritize my health. I\u2019m disappointed not to be there, \u2060but I look forward to returning to Montreal in the future,\u201d Sinner said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old Italian defended his Wimbledon title this \u200bmonth with a four-set win \u2060over German Zverev to claim his fifth Grand \u200bSlam title.<\/p>\n
Djokovic, 39, reached the \u200cWimbledon semi-finals, where Sinner defeated \u200bhim in three sets.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Nicole Fernandes in Toronto, editing by Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 24 (Reuters) – Wimbledon \u2060champion Jannik Sinner and 24-times Grand Slam \u2060winner Novak Djokovic have withdrawn from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,71209,82,593],"class_list":["post-823957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-na","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823957","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=823957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}