{"id":83756,"date":"2026-10-04T03:36:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T03:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/83756"},"modified":"2026-10-04T03:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T03:36:26","slug":"sinner-withdraws-from-shanghai-masters-as-knee-injury-lingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/83756","title":{"rendered":"Sinner withdraws from Shanghai Masters as knee injury lingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>World number one Jannik Sinner has withdrawn from next week\u2019s Shanghai Masters as he continues his \u200brecovery from a knee injury that has sidelined \u200chim since winning the Wimbledon title in July.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Italian, 25, has not played since his triumph at the All England Club, \u200bmissing the North American hardcourt swing, including \u200bthe US Open, and the ongoing ATP 500 \u2060event in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, I won\u2019t be able to play \u200bat the Rolex Shanghai Masters this year as I \u200bhad hoped,\u201d Sinner wrote on Instagram on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always enjoy playing in front of the Shanghai fans and I\u2019m very sorry \u200bthat I won\u2019t be able to do so next \u200bweek.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Masters 1000 event runs from October 7-18 and features a \u200cstrong \u2060field led by four-times champion Novak Djokovic, along with Alexander Zverev, Carlos Alcaraz, Daniil Medvedev, Ben Shelton, Felix Auger-Aliassime and defending champion Valentin Vacherot.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner won the Shanghai \u200btitle in \u200b2024, defeating Djokovic \u2060in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner\u2019s absence could boost Zverev\u2019s push to finish the season as \u200bworld number one. The German, French Open \u200band US \u2060Open champion this year, has emerged as the Italian\u2019s closest challenger.<\/p>\n<p>Zverev can move to the top of the \u2060rankings \u200bfor the first time if he \u200bwins both the China Open in Beijing and the Shanghai Masters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/sinner-withdraws-from-shanghai-masters-as-knee-injury-lingers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World number one Jannik Sinner has withdrawn from next week\u2019s Shanghai Masters as he continues his \u200brecovery from a knee injury that has sidelined \u200chim since winning the Wimbledon title in July. The Italian, 25, has not played since his triumph at the All England Club, \u200bmissing the North American hardcourt swing, including \u200bthe US Open, and the ongoing ATP&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/PG12-Lead-7-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":6986,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":6986,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83758,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83756\/revisions\/83758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}