{"id":125103,"date":"2019-09-02T05:22:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T03:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=125103"},"modified":"2019-09-02T06:35:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T04:35:11","slug":"defending-us-open-champion-novak-retires-from-r16-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/defending-us-open-champion-novak-retires-from-r16-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending US Open champion Novak retires from R16 match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Novak’s US Open title defence came to a halt on Sunday when the Serb retired from his fourth-round match against 23rd seed Stan Wawrinka with an injury.<\/p>\n

Defending champion Novak Djokovic has retired from the 2019 US Open<\/a>. The Swiss led, 6-4, 7-5, 2-1, when\u00a0the 16-time Grand Slam titlist stopped play after one hour and 46 minutes due to a left shoulder injury.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The two were facing off for the first time since the 2016 US Open final.<\/p>\n

Novak suffered a break in the fifth game and the Swiss clinched the opening set. The world no.1 righted his ship to begin the second set, breaking his rival to take a 3-0 lead. Wawrinka broke back in the seventh game, and once again in the 11th, then earned a two-set advantage by holding serve.<\/p>\n

Djokovic received treatment on his left shoulder after the second set, and was broken at love in the third game to trail 2-1. He tried until the end, but was not able to finish his match.<\/p>\n

“It is frustrating. Very frustrating. Obviously not the first, not the last player to get injured and to withdraw from one of the biggest events in sport,”<\/strong> Djokovic said. “But obviously I just came off the court, so of course it hurts. I congratulate Stan, I don\u2019t want to talk about my injuries. I hope I\u2019ll be healthy, I like my chances for the rest of the season. I hope I can play for many more years.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics: aces (2-9), double faults (5-3), winners (15-17), unforced errors (35-19), total points won (63-80).<\/p>\n

Wawrinka will play Russian fifth seed Daniil Medvedev in the last eight.<\/p>\n

Should the recovery go well, Novak will make his debut at the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The longest-running ATP Tour tournament in Asia, first held in 1972, is taking place in Tokyo from September 30 to October 6.<\/p>\n

The ATP 500 event is played at the Ariake Colosseum, an expansive tennis centre comprising 48 courts and a stadium with one of the first retractable roofs in tennis.<\/p>\n

Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Novak’s US Open title defence came to a halt on Sunday when the Serb retired from his fourth-round match against Stan Wawrinka. The Swiss led, 6-4, 7-5, 2-1, when the top seed stopped due to a left shoulder injury. They were facing off for the first time since the 2016 US Open final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":125100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[133,93,101010469,101011747,101011866,101012302],"class_list":["post-125103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-defending-champion","tag-fourth-round","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-injury","tag-new-york","tag-us-open-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125103"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125152,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125103\/revisions\/125152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}