{"id":43504,"date":"2026-08-22T17:32:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T15:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43504"},"modified":"2026-08-22T17:32:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T15:32:56","slug":"sinner-withdraws-from-us-open-due-to-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sinner-withdraws-from-us-open-due-to-knee-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner withdraws from US open due to knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>World number one Jannik Sinner has withdrawn from the US Open due \u200bto a persistent right knee injury, the Italian said on Friday, depriving the season&#8217;s final Grand Slam \u200cof one of its biggest contenders.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 24-year-old, who captured his fifth major title at Wimbledon last month, has not played since sustaining the injury earlier this month.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He pulled out of the Cincinnati Open and also skipped the Canadian Open, two key hard-court tune-up events ahead of the Grand Slam \u200btournament in New York.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Even though I have been working hard with my team and my medical staff, we have \u200bnow had to make the difficult decision that I will not be able to compete at \u2060the US Open this year,&#8221; Sinner said in a statement posted on X.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We have been back on court in Monte \u200bCarlo over the last couple of days and have realised that I still need more time to recover from my right \u200bknee issue.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The announcement comes a day after world number two Carlos Alcaraz confirmed he would compete at Flushing Meadows following a four-month absence from competitive tennis.<\/div>\n<div>Alcaraz, who beat Sinner in last year&#8217;s US Open final, now heads to New York as the highest-ranked player and one of the \u200bfavourites to lift the title, despite recent injury troubles.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sinner&#8217;s absence removes one of the Spaniard&#8217;s biggest rivals and could ease his \u200bpath as he bids for an eighth Grand Slam crown.<\/div>\n<div>\nThe US Open runs from August 23 to September 13.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14834,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-43504","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"He pulled out of the Cincinnati Open and also skipped the Canadian Open.","published_date":"","news_description":"He pulled out of the Cincinnati Open and also skipped the Canadian Open.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43505,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43504\/revisions\/43505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=43504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}