(Marseille) Italian Jannik Sinner, winner of the Australian Open on Sunday, has withdrawn from the ATP 250 tournament in Marseille, which begins in a week, the organizers announced on Monday.
“Open 13 Provence, Sinner forfeits,” wrote the organizers of the Marseille tournament on their X account. They also say they are in discussions with the German Alexander Zverev, semi-finalist in Australia.
Sinner, 4e world player, won the first Grand Slam title of his career on Sunday against Russian Daniil Medvedev. He was to be the headliner of the Marseille tournament, for which he had already withdrawn last year, shortly before entering the fray against Frenchman Arthur Fils.
In the absence of Sinner, it is the Pole Hubert Hurkacz, 8e world player and defending champion in Marseille, who should be seeded N.1.