Sinner withdraws from the US Open with a knee injury

The world No. 1 misses a Grand Slam for the first time since 2019, and the men's seeding is redrawn around his absence.

Jannik Sinner has pulled out of the US Open with a right knee injury, ending a run of Grand Slam appearances that stretched back to 2019.

The withdrawal reshaped the top of the draw rather than merely thinning it. With the world No. 1 out, Alexander Zverev inherits the top seeding and the halves reorganise around Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic and a group of contenders who suddenly have a shorter route to the second week.

For a tournament already missing several names to injury, losing the game's best hard-court player in August is the kind of absence that gets quoted for the rest of the fortnight — and one that makes the men's title the most open it has been in New York for several years.

Summarised by TennisArena from reporting by Sports Illustrated — https://www.si.com/onsi/serve/news/ranking-top-5-us-open-storylines-heading-into-new-york-01m0xb12k9v1