Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from the upcoming Masters 1000 event in Miami.
Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from the upcoming Miami Open (Picture: Getty)
Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from the Miami Open, the place he completed runner-up in 2025. The world No. 3 just lately reached the fourth spherical in Indian Wells, shedding to British star Jack Draper in a bodily three-set battle. And he is not going to proceed the ‘Sunshine Double’ in Miami, because the ATP confirmed Djokovic had pulled out of the subsequent Masters 1000 event as a result of a shoulder harm.
Djokovic misplaced to Jakub Mensik in final yr’s last. By withdrawing from the event, he’ll now lose the 650 rating factors he earned for his runner-up displaying 12 months in the past, and is ready to drop exterior of the world’s high three.
The Serbian celebrity is a six-time former champion in Miami however has not often performed the event lately. He reached the fourth spherical in 2019 and didn’t compete once more till his run to the ultimate final March.
Djokovic had already revealed that he was enjoying via an harm whereas competing in Indian Wells this previous fortnight. The world No. 3 wore an arm sleeve all through the event, however this wasn’t of any large concern, as he just lately introduced a brand new collaboration with Incrediwear on his personal vary of restoration sleeves.
However forward of his fourth-round conflict with Draper, the 38-year-old advised Tennis Channel that he was coping with a forearm subject. “I’ve been struggling the final couple of weeks with that forearm and making an attempt to undergo. It’s a bit odd, the extra I serve, the higher I really feel, however then it comes on and off if I get chilly,” Djokovic defined.
“If I don’t serve for 5 – 6 minutes, then I really feel like the primary couple of serves of that recreation are a bit painful. I’m working via it. It’s not one thing I haven’t confronted earlier than. It’s the ins and outs of being a tennis participant at this stage, however total, the physique is feeling okay. Hopefully it’s going to get higher each day.”
Novak Djokovic completed runner-up to Jakub Mensik on the 2025 Miami Open (Picture: Getty)
It was, nevertheless, a shoulder harm which compelled him out of the upcoming Miami Open. The boys’s singles important draw will get underway on Wednesday, however Djokovic wouldn’t have performed his opening match till Friday or Saturday as one of many high seeds.
Djokovic by no means really hit the bottom operating in Indian Wells, regardless of reaching the fourth spherical there for the primary time in 9 years. He dropped units to Kamil Majchrzak and Aleksandar Kovacevic in his first two matches earlier than struggling a 4-6 6-4 7-6(5) defeat to 2025 champion Draper.
The 38-year-old received an exhilarating 26-shot rally in opposition to Draper early within the third set, however finally believes that price him. Djokovic was damaged a few video games later. He broke again when the British No. 1 served for the match, however finally misplaced in a tiebreak. “One level [made the difference]. Yeah, one level,” Djokovic later mentioned.
“I imply, it price me a break after, you already know. It was nice profitable that time in that recreation, however I simply, like, ran utterly out of the fuel and simply began to really feel a bit higher in the direction of principally finish of the third. He performed a sloppy recreation to shut it out 5-4, and, you already know, I acquired the group, you already know, backing me, and I felt the power. It was, like, possibly I am gonna take this one. It was so shut, so shut. I imply, simply unlucky few errors from my aspect. Tiebreak, 4-3 up. 5-5, as properly. That is tennis.”
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