{"id":79718,"date":"2025-08-20T08:31:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/79718\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:31:16","slug":"the-last-time-a-player-won-an-atp-masters-1000-title-due-to-a-retirement-after-jannik-sinners-cincinnati-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/79718\/","title":{"rendered":"The last time a player won an ATP Masters 1000 title due to a retirement after Jannik Sinner\u2019s Cincinnati withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jannik Sinner\u2019s retirement from the Cincinnati Open final was unexpected to say the least.<\/p>\n

Carlos Alcaraz only realised after the third game of the match that something in Sinner\u2019s mannerisms was awry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Sinner, he was forced to retire<\/a> while 0-5 down in the first set, handing Alcaraz his first Cincinnati Open title.<\/p>\n

\"JannikPhoto by Matthew Stockman\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Not since 2014 has an ATP Masters 1000 final been decided by a retirement.<\/p>\n

This particular match was a fierce contest up until the final set, when one of the players was forced to retire due to a back injury.<\/p>\n

When Kei Nishikori retired from the 2014 Madrid Open final against Rafael Nadal<\/p>\n

In 2014, Rafael Nadal<\/a> and Kei Nishikori met in the final of the Madrid Open in Spain.<\/p>\n

Nishikori, now ranked 88 in the world following a spate of unfortunate injuries, was enjoying a successful period in 2014. The Japanese star cracked the ATP top 10 in May 2014, becoming the first Japanese player to do so.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Nadal was just under a month away from winning yet another French Open title.<\/p>\n

\"KeiPhoto by Europa Press\/Europa Press via Getty Images<\/p>\n

In the Madrid final, Nishikori took a commanding lead, winning the first set 6-2. The Japanese star then established control in the second set: up a break and leading 4-3. <\/p>\n

However, he suffered a back injury while serving, and lost the next six games consecutively before retiring from the match.<\/p>\n

Nishikori, who has not won a Masters 1000 title to this day despite reaching four finals, battled his way to the 2014 US Open final, before losing to Marin Cilic.<\/p>\n

Nadal empathised with Nishikori in his post-match speech<\/p>\n

Following his victory over Nishikori in 2014, the ever-gracious Nadal sympathised with his opponent, while comparing Nishikori\u2019s injury situation to an incident he had endured just a few months previous.<\/p>\n

As per the BBC, Nadal said after the match: \u201cI\u2019m sorry for him [Nishikori]. When you suffer something like that, it\u2019s really tough.<\/p>\n

\u201cI suffered a similar situation\u00a0in Australia\u00a0this year. So I know what I\u2019m talking about and how bitter it is, especially when you\u2019re playing an important match.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nadal was referring to his 2014 Australian Open final loss to Stan Wawrinka; a match in which Nadal suffered a back injury.<\/p>\n

After the contest, Nishikori said: \u201cI am very disappointed about what happened in this final,\u201d said Nishikori.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, I was hurting already and I tried to fight but Rafa was too good today, so congratulations to him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner\u2019s retirement from the Cincinnati Open final was unexpected to say the least. Carlos Alcaraz only realised…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1918,870,13301,811,30076,40616,6767,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-79718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-atp-tennis-players","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-cincinnati-open","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-kei-nishikori","tag-madrid-open","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79718","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=79718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}