MONACO \u2014 Top-ranked Jannik Sinner announced he will be out for the rest of the year as he continues to deal with an injured knee.<\/p>\n
Sinner has not played since July when he beat Alexander Zverev in the Wimbledon final. He withdrew from the U.S. Open because of a right knee injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cMe, together with the doctors, have decided that I need a course of treatment for my knee, which means that the 2026 season is officially over,\u201d Sinner said on Tuesday in a video message on Instagram. \u201cI also need to think about my long-term career so I will do everything possible to get back 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sinner risks losing the No. 1 ranking while he\u2019s out.<\/p>\n
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Sinner had already announced he would miss the upcoming Shanghai Masters. Now he\u2019ll also miss the Paris Masters and the ATP Finals in November. Plus, he won\u2019t be able to play for host and three-time defending champion Italy in the Davis Cup Final 8.<\/p>\n
But if Sinner does return at the start of next year he could play the Australian Open \u2014 the next Grand Slam \u2014 which starts Jan. 17.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the advice of his medical team, Jannik Sinner will follow a course of treatment for inflammation in his knee,\u201d a statement from Sinner\u2019s management team said. \u201cThe decision has been made to have the treatment now to give Jannik the necessary time to recover before beginning preparations for 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old Sinner has won five Grand Slam titles. He also had a 30-match winning streak this year before his meltdown in a second-round defeat at the French Open amid a Paris heat wave.<\/p>\n
Carlos Alcaraz, Sinner\u2019s main rival, missed 4 \u00bd months this year due to a right wrist injury.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Alexander Zverev won two of the four Grand Slam titles and is nearing the No. 1 ranking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONACO \u2014 Top-ranked Jannik Sinner announced he will be out for the rest of the year as he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-872923","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\/872923","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=872923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}