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\n Djokovic withdraws from Doha, where Alcaraz & Sinner headline<\/p>\n
The hard-court ATP 500 event begins Monday<\/p>\n
February 11, 2026<\/p>\n
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Peter Staples<\/p>\n
Novak Djokovic reached his 11th Australian Open final last month.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
Novak Djokovic<\/a> has withdrawn from the upcoming Qatar ExxonMobil Open<\/a> in Doha due to strong fatigue, the tournament announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n The 38-year-old Serbian reached his 11th Australian Open<\/a> final lost month, when he fell to World No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> in four sets. Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner<\/a> are the top two seeds at the hard-court ATP 500 event in Doha, which begins Monday.<\/p>\n Alcaraz fell to Jiri Lehecka<\/a> in the quarter-finals of his Doha debut last year, and Sinner is making his first appearance at the event. Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a>, Alexander Bublik<\/a>, Daniil Medvedev<\/a> and Andrey Rublev<\/a> are among the other Top 20 players in the PIF ATP Rankings who feature in this year’s field.<\/p>\n Djokovic, who won back-to-back titles in Doha in 2016-17, owns a 15-3 tournament record, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index. He is next scheduled to compete at the ATP Masters 1000 in Indian Wells, where he ties Roger Federer<\/a> (5) for the most titles.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Player News Djokovic withdraws from Doha, where Alcaraz & Sinner headline The hard-court ATP 500 event begins Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-462759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462759","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=462759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\u201cATP\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767418027_359_atp-no-1-club-banner-article.jpg\")
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