{"id":326777,"date":"2026-08-21T17:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326777\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:10:09","slug":"jannik-sinner-withdraws-from-the-2026-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326777\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner withdraws from the 2026 US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) \u2014 Top-ranked Jannik Sinner withdrew from the U.S. Open on Friday, unable to recover from a right knee injury that has sidelined him since winning the Wimbledon title.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner beat Alexander Zverev last month for his second straight title at the All England Club, but then pulled out of the hard-court tournaments in Montreal and Cincinnati that serve as a warmup for the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Italian wrote Friday that he won&#8217;t be ready when the main draw begins on Aug. 30.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though I have been working hard with my team and my medical staff, we have now had to make the difficult decision that I will not be able to compete at the US Open this year,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/janniksin\/status\/2090800144782414155?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sinner wrote in a post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been back on court in Monte Carlo over the last couple of days and have realized that I still need more time to recover from my right knee issue. I\u2019m obviously very sad and disappointed, as New York has a special place in my heart. I was very much looking forward to coming back and playing in the electric atmosphere in front of the great fans there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sinner was the 2024 U.S. Open champion and lost to Carlos Alcaraz in last year&#8217;s final.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz posted on social media on Thursday that he would be ready to play in New York after he has been out of action since April because of a right wrist injury.<\/p>\n<p>The rivalry between those two has dominated men&#8217;s tennis in recent years, and they met in the last three Grand Slam finals in 2025. Alcaraz took the most recent one with his four-set victory in New York.<\/p>\n<p>That ended Sinner&#8217;s title reign after he beat Taylor Fritz in straight sets in the 2024 final.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner is 44-3 with six titles this year. He had a stunning collapse at the French Open, blowing a two-set lead while struggling in the heat in his second-round match against Juan Manuel Cerundolo. He then sat out until Wimbledon, where his victory gave him five Grand Slam titles.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first time Sinner has missed a Grand Slam tournament since making his major debut at the U.S. Open in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(AP) \u2014 Top-ranked Jannik Sinner withdrew from the U.S. Open on Friday, unable to recover from a right&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[11101,25,118,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,319,15547,27],"class_list":["post-326777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}