{"id":97967,"date":"2025-08-20T23:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/97967\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T23:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:39:06","slug":"kei-nishikori-will-miss-us-open-because-of-back-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/97967\/","title":{"rendered":"Kei Nishikori will miss US Open because of back injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 20, 2025, 01:52 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1035\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kei Nishikori<\/a> withdrew from the US Open on Wednesday, saying a back injury has not fully healed.<\/p>\n<p>Nishikori was injured in May and pulled out of the French Open. The 2014 US Open runner-up from Japan returned earlier this month for a first-round loss in Cincinnati but said his back isn&#8217;t healthy enough to play in New York.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hi fans, unfortunately I will not be ready for the U.S. Open yet. I had an MRI taken of my back and it&#8217;s not 100% healed yet,&#8221; Nishikori wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/keinishikori\/status\/1958183110811562421\" rel=\"nofollow\">social media post<\/a>. &#8220;Working hard to be back on court soon. Thanks for the support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nishikori was ranked No. 4 in 2015, the highest by an Asian men&#8217;s player but has struggled with injuries in recent years and has fallen to No. 88. He missed the entire 2022 season after a hip injury.<\/p>\n<p>He will be replaced in the draw by a player who loses in the final stages of qualifying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 20, 2025, 01:52 PM ET NEW YORK &#8212; Kei Nishikori withdrew from the US Open on Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-97967","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\/97967","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=97967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}