{"id":167453,"date":"2024-06-04T18:07:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T16:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=167453"},"modified":"2024-06-06T13:28:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T11:28:37","slug":"novak-withdraws-from-roland-garros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-withdraws-from-roland-garros\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak withdraws from Roland Garros!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Defending champion Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roland Garros<\/a> due to a right-knee injury, the tournament announced on Tuesday afternoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I am really sad to announce that I have to withdraw from Roland Garros. I played with my heart and gave my all in yesterday\u2019s match and unfortunately, due to a medial meniscus tear in my right knee, my team and I had to make a tough decision after careful consideration and consultation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I wish the best of luck to the players competing this week and sincerely thank the incredible fans for all of the love and continued support.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>See you soon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With love and gratitude,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Nole&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Novak advanced to the quarter-finals of the clay-court major after back-to-back five-set victories against Lorenzo Musetti and Francisco Cerundolo.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Serbian star struggled with his right knee during his Monday clash against the Argentine.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from Roland Garros due to a right-knee injury, the tournament announced on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":167373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[101011211,101010469,101011747,101013399,330],"class_list":["post-167453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-tennis","tag-french-open-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-injury","tag-roland-garros-2024-en","tag-withdrawal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167453","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=167453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167464,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167453\/revisions\/167464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}