Serbia’s Novak Djokovic reacts to beating Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz of their males’s singles remaining tennis match on Courtroom Philippe-Chatrier on the Roland-Garros Stadium throughout the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, in Paris on August 4, 2024.
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Novak Djokovic pulled out of the Cincinnati Open on Thursday, lower than per week after the 37-year-old from Serbia collected his first Olympic gold medal.
The Cincinnati occasion introduced his withdrawal. Djokovic gained final 12 months’s title there; this 12 months’s match begins subsequent week and serves as a hard-court tuneup forward of the U.S. Open.
The 12 months’s final Grand Slam match begins in New York on Aug. 26. The draw is Aug. 22.
Djokovic is the defending champion on the U.S. Open. He gained his twenty fourth profession main championship there in 2023.
He defeated Carlos Alcaraz 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2) on Sunday within the males’s singles remaining on the Paris Video games.
“We actually perceive that it’s a fast turnaround from his Olympic triumph to return to Cincinnati,” Cincinnati Open match director Bob Moran stated. “His title run right here final 12 months was so memorable. We’re desirous to see him on court docket once more quickly.”
Djokovic’s withdrawal permits France’s Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard to maneuver into the sphere in Cincinnati.
