{"id":483885,"date":"2024-06-05T06:10:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T10:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483885"},"modified":"2024-06-05T06:28:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T10:28:05","slug":"djokovic-to-have-surgery-in-paris-aims-at-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-to-have-surgery-in-paris-aims-at-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic to have surgery in Paris, aims at the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic is set to undergo urgent surgery for a torn medial meniscus in his right knee, an injury sustained during his round of 16 match against Francisco Cerundolo at the French Open.<\/p>\n<p>The former World No. 1 has decided to remain in France for the procedure, which will be performed by top doctors in Paris today.<\/p>\n<p>This decision means Djokovic will miss the third Grand Slam tournament of the year, Wimbledon, as he focuses on recovering in time for the Olympic Games starting on July 26 in Paris. The injury and subsequent surgery echo his 2018 experience when he had elbow surgery.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>According to L\u2019Equipe, Novak Djokovic will undergo knee surgery TODAY.<\/p>\n<p>His recovery is uncertain, but 3 weeks of rest is a minimum for this surgery, meaning he will be forced to SKIP Wimbledon this year. Olympics will be touch and go\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0TD6RDEVxa\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/0TD6RDEVxa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nIwxvKl7bo\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/nIwxvKl7bo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olly \ud83c\udfbe\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 (@Olly_Tennis_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Olly_Tennis_\/status\/1798280506376937784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic&#8217;s withdrawal from Roland Garros not only ends his current campaign but also results in him relinquishing his top spot in the world rankings, which will be officially taken over by Italian Jannik Sinner on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic is set to undergo urgent surgery for a torn medial meniscus in his right knee, an injury sustained during his round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":483886,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,16740,17669],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[18357,17855,19982],"acf":{"announce":"The Serbian will definitely miss Wimbledon and focuses on getting back on court for Paris 2024 tournament ","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\/483885"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483890,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483885\/revisions\/483890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483885"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483885"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}