{"id":745919,"date":"2026-08-22T07:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T07:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745919\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T07:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T07:10:10","slug":"holger-rune-becomes-latest-player-to-withdraw-from-us-open-as-he-recovers-from-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745919\/","title":{"rendered":"Holger Rune becomes latest player to withdraw from US Open as he recovers from injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">Former world number four Holger Rune, sidelined since October by an Achilles tendon injury, has withdrawn from the US Open, organizers said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Dane hasn&#8217;t played since he was hurt in the semi-finals at Stockholm last year.<\/p>\n<p>There had been indications that he was nearing a return when photos surfaced on social media this week of him playing practice sets in Spain with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/alcaraz-garfia-carlos\/UkhgIFEq\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seven-time Grand Slam champion Alcaraz has been sidelined himself since April with a wrist injury.<\/p>\n<p>But Alcaraz posted on social media on Thursday that he was back &#8211; just in time for his title defense at the final Grand Slam of the year which starts in New York on August 30.<\/p>\n<p>US Open organizers said Rune&#8217;s place in the main draw would be taken by Argentina&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/diaz-acosta-facundo\/AsRYv2m2\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facundo Diaz Acosta<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world number four Holger Rune, sidelined since October by an Achilles tendon injury, has withdrawn from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-745919","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\/745919","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=745919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}