{"id":35620,"date":"2025-07-25T06:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/35620\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T06:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:01:09","slug":"former-grand-slam-semi-finalist-withdraws-from-the-us-open-a-month-before-the-tournament-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/35620\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Grand Slam semi-finalist withdraws from the US Open a month before the tournament starts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The US Open is just around the corner, with two ATP Masters 1000 events set to take place in the build-up to the fourth and final Grand Slam of the year. <\/p>\n<p>Amid the conclusion of the Washington Open, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/peyton-stearns-admits-what-really-surprised-her-about-venus-williams-performance-after-losing-to-her-at-the-citi-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Venus Williams made her return to tennis<\/a>, the Canadian Open in Toronto will get underway. <\/p>\n<p>Several big names have already withdrawn from the event, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/jannik-sinner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Sinner<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/novak-djokovic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a>, and Jack Draper. <\/p>\n<p>Many stars are still recovering from the grass swing, including one player who has ruled himself out of the entire US hard-court season. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-1688613497-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A general view of Coco Gauff of the United States in action against Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus in the Women's Singles Final on a packed Arthur Ashe Stadium with the roof closed during the US Open Tennis Championship 2023 at the USTA National Tennis Centre.\" class=\"wp-image-113743\" \/>Photo by Tim Clayton\/Corbis via Getty ImagesATP Star withdraws from second Grand Slam event in a row<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/hubert-hurkacz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hubert Hurkacz<\/a> has withdrawn from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/us-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a> as he continues to recover from his knee injury. <\/p>\n<p>Hurkacz pulled out of Wimbledon earlier this summer, citing irritations in his synovial membrane, which he underwent a procedure to remove. <\/p>\n<p>He took to Instagram before the championships to say: \u201cI\u2019m now starting my recovery and will only come back when I\u2019m 110% ready to compete again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks so much for all the support, it really means a lot to me, and I can\u2019t wait to be back on court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2219109093-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Hubert Hurkacz of Poland during the tennis game against Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain on Day 3 at Autotron the Rosmalen Grass Court Championships Lib\u00e9ma Open Tournament an ATP 250 event in Den Bosch.\" class=\"wp-image-113805\" \/>Photo by Nicolas Economou\/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesWhat Hubert Hurkacz said about his knee issues before Wimbledon<\/p>\n<p>In his post on social media, Hurkacz explained: \u201cOver the past few weeks, I\u2019ve been dealing with knee issues, such as pain, fluid build-up, and other problems that made it hard to train and compete.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter exploring different options, we decided that having an arthroscopy this past Monday was the best solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the procedure, the overgrown synovial membrane causing the inflammation, pain, and related issues, was removed. A huge thank you to Dr. Bart\u0142omiej Kacprzak, who performed the surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hurkacz will not feature at the US Open for the first time since 2017.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Open is just around the corner, with two ATP Masters 1000 events set to take place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[29251,99,428,11883],"class_list":{"0":"post-35620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-hubert-hurkacz","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-us-open"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}