Jannik Sinner withdraws from Cincinnati Open with knee injury | Tennis News

Primary ranked participant in males’s tennis will miss the match because of a knee difficulty, he says by way of organisers.

World primary Jannik Sinner has pulled out of the Cincinnati Open because of a proper knee harm, the Italian has introduced.

“After consulting with my docs and my group, I’ve to announce that I have to withdraw from the Masters 1000 match in Cincinnati,” he mentioned in a press release posted on the ATP web site on Sunday.

“My proper knee has been bothering me and regardless that we now have been working exhausting with my medical group, I’ve to just accept that I’m not able to compete but.”

The match begins on Thursday, the identical day as the top of the Masters occasion in Montreal, which Sinner additionally missed.

The five-time Grand Slam winner had been on a six-tournament profitable streak at 1000 degree heading into the North American hard-court swing, earlier than skipping the occasion in Canada.

The 24-year-old mentioned then that the choice was taken to “prioritise my well being”.

Sinner’s subsequent withdrawal from Cincinnati follows that of world quantity two Carlos Alcaraz because the Spaniard continues to battle a wrist harm.

The Cincinnati Open and Montreal Masters are the 2 principal warm-up occasions forward of the ultimate Grand Slam of the season, the US Open, which begins in New York on 30 August.