{"id":48841,"date":"2026-06-17T23:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/musetti-withdraws-from-wimbledon-leaving-room-for-berrettini\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T23:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:12:37","slug":"musetti-withdraws-from-wimbledon-leaving-room-for-berrettini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/musetti-withdraws-from-wimbledon-leaving-room-for-berrettini\/","title":{"rendered":"Musetti withdraws from Wimbledon, leaving room for Berrettini"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>LONDON &#8212; Former Wimbledon semi-finalist Lorenzo Musetti has missed the next grass-court Grand Slam as he continues to recover from a left thigh injury.<\/p>\n<p>Musetti&#8217;s absence leaves an opening for fellow Italian Matteo Berrettini, a 2021 Wimbledon finalist and French Open quarterfinalist, who will play in the quarterfinals of the French Open.<\/p>\n<p>Musetti missed the French Open due to an injury sustained during the Italian Open in May.<\/p>\n<p>Musetti, ranked 15th in the world, said on Instagram on Wednesday: &#8220;My rehabilitation is progressing very well and the medical results are encouraging. Unfortunately, I have not yet begun a full-scale athletic training program and after careful consideration I have come to the difficult conclusion that I will not be able to compete at Wimbledon this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not an easy decision, but it&#8217;s the right one. My priority is to get back on the court at 100%.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musetti reached the semi-finals at the All England Club in 2024, but lost to Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p>Berrettini is ranked 49th but was outside the top 100 when the Wimbledon entry list was drawn up.<\/p>\n<p>Wimbledon starts on June 29th.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; Former Wimbledon semi-finalist Lorenzo Musetti has missed the next grass-court Grand Slam as he continues to recover from a left thigh injury. Musetti&#8217;s absence leaves an opening for fellow Italian Matteo Berrettini, a 2021 Wimbledon finalist and French Open quarterfinalist, who will play in the quarterfinals of the French Open. Musetti missed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[393,3143,1809,4306,24,1790,2927],"class_list":["post-48841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-berrettini","tag-leaving","tag-musetti","tag-room","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon","tag-withdraws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}