{"id":732727,"date":"2026-08-09T18:44:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T18:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/732727\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T18:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T18:44:23","slug":"im-not-ready-to-compete-jannik-sinner-pulls-out-of-cincinnati-open-jannik-sinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/732727\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m not ready to compete\u2019: Jannik Sinner pulls out of Cincinnati Open | Jannik Sinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The World No 1, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/jannik-sinner\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Sinner<\/a>, has pulled out of the Cincinnati Open due to a right knee injury, the Italian announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cAfter consulting with my doctors and my team, I have to announce that I need to withdraw from the Masters 1000 tournament in Cincinnati,\u201d he said in a statement posted on the ATP website. \u201cMy right knee has been bothering me and even though we have been working hard with my medical team, I have to accept that I\u2019m not ready to compete yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The tournament begins on Thursday, the same day as the end of the Masters event in Montreal, which Sinner also missed. The five-time Grand Slam winner had been on a six-tournament winning streak at 1000 level, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jul\/12\/jannik-sinner-alexander-zverev-wimbledon-2026-mens-singles-final-match-report\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">including retaining his Wimbledon title<\/a>, heading into the North American hard-court swing, before skipping the event in Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The 24-year-old said at the time the decision was taken to \u201cprioritise [his] health\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Sinner\u2019s subsequent withdrawal from Cincinnati <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/05\/carlos-alcaraz-injury-us-open-defence-cincinnati-masters-1000\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">follows that of world No 2 Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> as the Spaniard continues to battle a wrist injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The Cincinnati Open and Montreal Masters are the two principal warm-up events ahead of the final grand slam of the season, the US Open, which starts in New York on 30 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The World No 1, Jannik Sinner, has pulled out of the Cincinnati Open due to a right knee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-732727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}