World No 2 Jannik Sinner has withdrawn from the Italian Open in Rome with a hip injury.
The problem emerged during his win over Russian Karen Khachanov in Madrid, and forced the Italian to pull out of his quarter-final against Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada.
Now, Sinner joins world No 3 Carlos Alcaraz in missing the Italian Open through injury, a tournament for which both men would have been favourites.
“It is not easy to write this message, but after having spoken with doctors and specialists about my hip injury again, I will not be able to play in Rome,” he said in a statement on X.
Non è facile scrivere questo messaggio ma dopo aver parlato di nuovo con i medici e gli specialisti dei miei problemi all’anca devo annunciare che putroppo non potrò giocare a Roma.
Ovviamente sono molto triste di non aver recuperato, essendo uno dei miei tornei preferiti in… pic.twitter.com/kZt63nHjaz
— Jannik Sinner (@janniksin) May 4, 2024
“Obviously I am very sad not to have recovered, this being one of my favourite tournaments.”
Sinner will join Alcaraz, and world No 4 Daniil Medvedev — who is yet to withdraw but retired injured in Madrid — in racing to be fit for the French Open, which begins in Paris on May 26.
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Jannik Sinner has been biding his time. Is that time now?
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