{"id":395542,"date":"2023-01-11T03:30:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T08:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&p=395542"},"modified":"2023-01-11T04:39:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T09:39:27","slug":"djokovic-suffers-injury-ahead-of-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-suffers-injury-ahead-of-australian-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic suffers injury ahead of Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 21-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic suffered an injury scare ahead of the Australian Open with a hamstring twinge forcing him to cut short a practice match with Daniil Medvedev.<\/p>\n

The Serb, who missed last year’s Australian Open after being deported due to his vaccination status, played just one set against Medvedev before withdrawing.<\/p>\n

The fourth seed for this month’s major lasted a little under 40 minutes on Rod Laver Arena on Wednesday, in what marked his first appearance in Melbourne since being forced to leave the country last year.<\/p>\n

“I just felt it pulling and I didn’t want to risk anything worse,” he told local media.<\/p>\n

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“I played a set and apologized to him [Medvedev] and he was understanding. I just want to avoid any bigger scares before the Australian Open.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 21-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic suffered an injury scare ahead of the Australian Open with a hamstring twinge forcing him to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395543,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[5443,16740],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"lasted a little under 40 minutes on Rod Laver Arena in a practice match with Medvedev","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395542"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395542"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}