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Cameron Norrie has withdrawn from the US Open having introduced that he has not absolutely recovered from the forearm damage that compelled him to tug out of the lads’s singles occasion on the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games.
The British No 2 said he deliberate to take a while out to ‘relaxation and recharge’, having now withdrawn from the Olympics.
Norrie was on account of tackle Netherlands’ Tallon Griekspoor within the first spherical, with Petros Tsitsipas – the youthful brother of Stefanos Tsitsipas – taking his place.
He would later withdraw from the lads’s singles occasion on the Canadian Open, having been on account of face Marcos Giron in Montreal.
In a press release on his Instagram, the British tennis star wrote on Friday: ‘I’ve been working laborious to get my physique to full well being – sadly my forearm damage isn’t recovering as quickly as I might have hoped.
‘Subsequently I will be unable to compete on this 12 months’s US open. I’ll take some relaxation and recharge. Can’t wait to get again to competing like a canine.’
The Garden Tennis Affiliation posted his message on X (previously Twitter), writing: ‘Hope to see you again on courtroom quickly @cam_norrie.’
Murray and Norrie have each been troubled with accidents this 12 months, with Murray notably rupturing an ankle ligament in March that sidelined him for 2 months – Murray had additionally struggled with a again difficulty throughout this 12 months’s match at Queen’s.
It comes after Andy Murray bowed out {of professional} tennis on the Paris Video games, having introduced forward of the Olympics that this might be his remaining match.
Murray and Norrie have each been troubled with accidents this 12 months, with Murray notably rupturing an ankle ligament in March that sidelined him for 2 months – Murray had additionally struggled with a again difficulty throughout this 12 months’s match at Queen’s.
Following Murray’s retirement, it means Dan Evans and Jack Draper are the one Brits within the males’s singles draw at Flushing Meadows this summer time.
Norrie, who gained twice on the ATP Tour in 2023, is but so as to add to his haul of 5 titles on the lads’s tennis circuit this season.
He seemed primed to defend his title on the ATP500 in Rio earlier this 12 months, however was knocked out on the semi-finals by Mariano Navone.
Earlier this summer time, he would attain the spherical of 32 within the males’s singles at Wimbledon, beating fellow Brit Draper within the spherical of 64, earlier than being bested by Alexander Zverev in three units.
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