{"id":26625,"date":"2025-08-20T14:02:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T18:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/nishikori-withdraws-from-us-open-due-to-back-injury-details\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:02:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T18:02:31","slug":"nishikori-withdraws-from-us-open-due-to-back-injury-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/nishikori-withdraws-from-us-open-due-to-back-injury-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Nishikori Withdraws from US Open Due to Back Injury: Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Kei Nishikori Withdraws from US Open Due to Injury<\/h2>\n\nJapanese tennis player Kei Nishikori has announced his withdrawal from the US Open due to a back injury that has not yet fully healed.\n\nNishikori, who suffered the injury in May, had already withdrawn from the French Open. The 2014 US Open runner-up tried to return to competition this month, but a first-round loss in Cincinnati showed him that his back was not recovered enough to compete in New York.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>\u201cHi fans, unfortunately I won&#8217;t be ready for the US Open. I had an MRI on my back and it&#8217;s still not 100% healed. I&#8217;m working hard to get back on the court soon. Thanks for the support,\u201d Nishikori wrote on his social media.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Kei Nishikori<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nNishikori reached the number 4 spot in the world ranking in 2015, the highest position achieved by an Asian player in the history of men&#8217;s tennis. However, injuries have affected his performance in recent years, which has led him to the number 88 spot. He missed the entire 2022 season due to a hip injury.\n\nNishikori&#8217;s place in the tournament will be taken by a player who loses in the final rounds of qualifying.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kei Nishikori Withdraws from US Open Due to Injury Japanese tennis player Kei Nishikori has announced his withdrawal from the US Open due to a back injury that has not yet fully healed. Nishikori, who suffered the injury in May, had already withdrawn from the French Open. The 2014 US Open runner-up tried to return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[290,7564,167,3162],"class_list":{"0":"post-26625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-injury","9":"tag-kei-nishikori","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-us-open"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}