{"id":115103,"date":"2021-08-12T01:45:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T01:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=115103"},"modified":"2021-08-12T01:56:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T01:56:59","slug":"nadals-us-open-preparations-in-disarray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=115103","title":{"rendered":"Nadal&#039;s US Open preparations in disarray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After pulling out of the hard-court tournament in Toronto this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rafael-nadal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Rafael Nadal\">Rafael Nadal<\/a> said he was also withdrawing from the upcoming event in Cincinnati because of an injured left foot that has troubled him for months.<\/p>\n<p>The decision by the 20-time Grand Slam champion means he is unlikely to play before the US Open. Nadal won the US Open in 2019, the last time he entered.<\/p>\n<p>Milos Raonic, who has a heel injury, also pulled out of Cincinnati on Wednesday. Other stars not playing include <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/roger-federer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Roger Federer\">Roger Federer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/novak-djokovic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Novak Djokovic\">Novak Djokovic<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/serena-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Serena Williams\">Serena Williams<\/a>, Venus Williams and Sofia Kenin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/crosscourt1\/status\/1425511457588879362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/crosscourt1\/status\/1425511457588879362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Nadal played last week in Washington, winning his match against Jack Sock and losing to Lloyd Harris \u2014 both in three sets. Nadal was bothered by the foot there.<\/p>\n<p>That marked his first competition in about two months. After losing to Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals of the French Open on June 11, Nadal sat out Wimbledon and the Tokyo Olympics because of the injury and went about three weeks without practicing.<\/p>\n<p>The Western &amp; Southern Open starts Sunday (AEST). The US Open begins August 30 in New York.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>After pulling out of the hard-court tournament in Toronto this week, Rafael Nadal said he was also withdrawing from the upcoming event in Cincinnati because <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=115103\" title=\"Nadal&#039;s US Open preparations in disarray\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115104,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115103\/revisions\/115104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}