Croatia’s Marin Cilic, the 2014 US Open champion, and Canadian Denis Shapovalov have withdrawn from the upcoming US Open, match officers introduced on Wednesday. Each gamers had been sidelined from the 12 months’s closing Grand Slam occasion on the New York hardcourts because of knee accidents. Cilic, 34, was a French Open semi-finalist final 12 months and ranked as excessive as third on the earth.

However he has fallen to 121st within the ATP world rankings and has performed solely twice this season, most just lately shedding a first-round match final month at Umag.

World quantity 22 Shapovalov, 24, gained his solely ATP title in 2019 at Stockholm. He has not performed since a run to the final 16 at Wimbledon final month.

“Regardless of doing every thing attainable to be 100% wholesome in time for @usopen, my knee wants extra time and I sadly should withdraw,” Shapovalov posted on social media.

“That grand slam power, particularly in NYC, is not like the rest and I am actually going to overlook enjoying in entrance of the superb followers there this 12 months!”

South Korea’s 107th-ranked Kwon Quickly-woo, who gained his second profession ATP title in January at Adelaide, and Hungary’s Attila Balazs changed Cilic and Shapovalov within the US Open important draw.

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