Jannik Sinner withdraws from Cincinnati Open with knee injury

Number 1 ranked subordinate successful men’s tennis volition miss the tourney owed to a genu issue, helium says via organisers.

World fig 1 Jannik Sinner has pulled retired of the Cincinnati Open owed to a close genu injury, the Italian has announced.

“After consulting with my doctors and my team, I person to denote that I request to retreat from the Masters 1000 tourney successful Cincinnati,” helium said successful a connection posted connected the ATP website connected Sunday.

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“My close genu has been bothering maine and adjacent though we person been moving hard with my aesculapian team, I person to judge that I’m not acceptable to vie yet.”

The tourney begins connected Thursday, the aforesaid time arsenic the extremity of the Masters lawsuit successful Montreal, which Sinner besides missed.

The five-time Grand Slam victor had been connected a six-tournament winning streak astatine 1000 level heading into the North American hard-court swing, earlier skipping the lawsuit successful Canada.

The 24-year-old said past that the determination was taken to “prioritise my health”.

Sinner’s consequent withdrawal from Cincinnati follows that of satellite fig 2 Carlos Alcaraz arsenic the Spaniard continues to conflict a wrist injury.

The Cincinnati Open and Montreal Masters are the 2 main warm-up events up of the last Grand Slam of the season, the US Open, which starts successful New York connected 30 August.