{"id":1271,"date":"2023-06-19T08:56:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T08:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/queens-champion-matteo-berrettini-pulls-out-because-of-abdominal-injury\/"},"modified":"2023-06-19T08:56:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T08:56:07","slug":"queens-champion-matteo-berrettini-pulls-out-because-of-abdominal-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/queens-champion-matteo-berrettini-pulls-out-because-of-abdominal-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen’s: Champion Matteo Berrettini pulls out because of abdominal injury"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Defending champion Matteo Berrettini has withdrawn from next week’s championships at Queen’s because of an abdominal injury.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A stomach muscle tear saw the Italian, 27, miss the clay-court season and last week he <\/span>lost 6-1 6-2 to Lorenzo Sonego<\/span><\/a> on his return to action in Stuttgart.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In 2021, the world number 21 <\/span>won at Queen’s<\/span><\/a> before losing to Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final.<\/span><\/p>\n

He <\/span>beat Filip Krajinovic<\/span><\/a> in last year’s final to retain the Queen’s title.<\/span><\/p>\n

Berrettini withdrew from Wimbledon last year after testing positive for Covid-19 and now hopes to be fit in time for this year’s tournament, which starts on 3 July.<\/span><\/p>\n

Top seed and world number two Carlos Alcaraz will make his debut at Queen’s this year and the 20-year-old Spaniard is due to face qualifier Arthur Fils in the opening round on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the same day, unseeded record five-time champion Andy Murray is due to face a tough opening match against Australian world number 18 Alex de Minaur.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fellow Briton Cameron Norrie, a Wimbledon semi-finalist last year and fifth seed at Queen’s, will play Serbia’s Miomir Kecmanovic on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>\"Watch<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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Defending champion Matteo Berrettini has withdrawn from next week’s championships at Queen’s because of an abdominal injury. A stomach muscle tear saw the Italian, 27, miss the clay-court season and last week he lost 6-1 6-2 to Lorenzo Sonego on his return to action in Stuttgart. In 2021, the world number 21 won at Queen’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}