{"id":17112,"date":"2021-08-10T09:42:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T04:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=135383"},"modified":"2021-08-10T09:42:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T04:12:03","slug":"tennis-ace-novak-djokovic-pulls-out-of-the-western-southern-open-in-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/tennis-ace-novak-djokovic-pulls-out-of-the-western-southern-open-in-cincinnati\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis ace Novak Djokovic pulls out of the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">World number 1 tennis ace Novak Djokovic pulls out of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, stating that he needs rest and time to recover after this participation in the Tokyo Olympics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our two-time champion Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CincyTennis?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CincyTennis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We will miss you this year, champ \ud83d\udc99 <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf0: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8lNmwqyvY7\">https:\/\/t.co\/8lNmwqyvY7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cJoIgNsfcY\">pic.twitter.com\/cJoIgNsfcY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cincinnati Open (@CincyTennis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CincyTennis\/status\/1424845935889244160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Djokovic has already won the season\u2019s first three majors at the Australian Open, Roland Garros and Wimbledon. After winning all the Grand Slam tournaments he has entered this year, the 34-year old seeks to complete the calendar-year Grand Slam since Rod Laver in 1969.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CincyTennis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CincyTennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J1N19eKOp4\">pic.twitter.com\/J1N19eKOp4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Novak Djokovic (@DjokerNole) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DjokerNole\/status\/1424846763089960965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His Olympic campaign was ended when he lost to the eventual goal medalist Alexander Zverev of Germany in the semi-finals and then missing out on the bronze medal against the Spaniard Pablo Carreno for third place at the Olympics<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019m taking a bit longer to recover after quite a physically taxing journey from Australian Open up to Tokyo,\u201d he wrote on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSadly, this means I won\u2019t be ready to compete in Cincinnati this year so I\u2019ll be turning my focus to the U.S. Open and spending more time with my family. Can\u2019t wait to see you in New York soon!\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Djokovic has witnessed victory twice in the Western & Southern Open. The Serbian completed the Career Golden Masters in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cincinnati in the year 2018. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He was victorious again last year when the event was held in New York at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic pulls out of the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, stating that he needs rest and time to recover after this participation in the Tokyo Olympics.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":37859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[476,1421,203,202],"class_list":["post-17112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp","tag-grand-slam","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-tennis"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}