{"id":782764,"date":"2026-09-26T02:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782764\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T02:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:02:18","slug":"jannik-sinner-to-miss-china-open-with-lingering-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782764\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner to miss China Open with lingering knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number one Jannik Sinner will not be defending his China Open title as he continues to recover from a knee injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The same injury also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cvgw2qg3e70o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruled him out of the US Open<\/a> in August, and the Italian has not played competitively since his victory over Alexander Zverev in the Wimbledon final. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinner, 25, won the China Open in 2023 and 2025. The tournament starts on Wednesday and concludes on 6 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to send the warmest greetings to the Chinese fans,&#8221; Sinner said in a video posted on social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very sorry to announce that I won&#8217;t be able to play in Beijing this year. My knee is not where I would like it to be and I&#8217;m not ready to compete yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I will do everything possible to be there on court as soon as I can. What I miss the most is, of course, the tournament, the fans and the atmosphere. I&#8217;ve had great times there in the past, winning the title also last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very disappointed that I cannot defend it this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zverev and Novak Djokovic are among the other stars still expected to compete in Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number one Jannik Sinner will not be defending his China Open title as he continues to recover&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-782764","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\/782764","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=782764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}