{"id":589811,"date":"2026-04-17T13:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589811\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:26:08","slug":"novak-djokovic-pulls-out-of-madrid-open-because-of-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589811\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic pulls out of Madrid Open because of injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 17, 2026, 06:59 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>MADRID &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"4a27bb1c-2422-55c3-208b-9e9d8c1f30af\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=296\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> has pulled out of the Madrid Open because of a lingering injury.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth-ranked Djokovic hasn&#8217;t competed since the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. He missed the Miami Open because of a right shoulder injury and also skipped the Monte Carlo Masters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Madrid, unfortunately I won&#8217;t be able to compete at the Madrid Open this year,&#8221; he wrote Friday on his social media accounts. &#8220;I&#8217;m continuing my recovery in order to be back soon. Hasta pronto!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic is a three-time champion in Madrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 17, 2026, 06:59 AM ET MADRID &#8212; Novak Djokovic has pulled out of the Madrid Open because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-589811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589811","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=589811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}