 Welcome back to Tennis Talk, my name's Cam Williams and the world number one Novak Djokovic is out of the Cincinnati Masters He's withdrawn from the tournament and of course he is the defending champion He just brought out a statement on Twitter, so let's go have a read So this is the statement that Nole wrote over on Twitter. Dear Nole fam I wanted to share with you that I'm taking a bit longer to recover after quite a physically taxing journey from Australia Open up to Tokyo. Sadly, this means I won't be ready to compete in Cincinnati this year So I'll be turning my focus to the US Open and spending more time with my family Can't wait to see you in New York soon. There it is Novak Djokovic He's joining Federer and team not playing Cincinnati But of course Djokovic going into the US Open the fourth major of the year He is going to be playing for history So he is going into New York with no warm-up tournaments in America Of course, he did play Tokyo a couple of weeks ago But he lost back-to-back matches there to finish that tournament to go into New York He's playing for history. We all know that but he's going with no actual matches going in besides Tokyo So let me know down in the comments below. Do you think this affects his chances of playing New York? Or do you think it helps him because sometimes he does go into the US Open a little bit injured a little bit too many matches Maybe and this time around he's gonna have no excuses going into the US Open Hopefully fresh going to play for history, of course So let me know down in the comments below Do you think this hurts or helps Djokovic in New York? The world number one Novak Djokovic is not playing Cincinnati and will not have a warm-up tournament going into the US Open