{"id":33932,"date":"2026-08-21T14:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T14:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/us-open-2026-jannik-sinner-withdraws-from-flushing-meadows-event-with-a-knee-injury\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T14:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T14:09:18","slug":"us-open-2026-jannik-sinner-withdraws-from-flushing-meadows-event-with-a-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/us-open-2026-jannik-sinner-withdraws-from-flushing-meadows-event-with-a-knee-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open 2026: Jannik Sinner withdraws from Flushing Meadows event with a knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">World number one Jannik Sinner has pulled out of the upcoming US Open with a knee injury.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old Italian has not played competitively since winning the Wimbledon title in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Even though I have been working hard with my team and my medical staff, we have now had to make the difficult decision that I will not be able to compete at the US Open this year,&#8221; Sinner said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have been back on court in Monte Carlo over the last couple of days and have realised that I still need more time to recover from my right knee issue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m obviously very sad and disappointed, as New York has a special place in my heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More to follow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cvgw2qg3e70o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World number one Jannik Sinner has pulled out of the upcoming US Open with a knee injury. The 25-year-old Italian has not played competitively since winning the Wimbledon title in July. &#8220;Even though I have been working hard with my team and my medical staff, we have now had to make the difficult decision that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33932","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=33932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33934,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33932\/revisions\/33934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}