Andy Roddick produced a career-best fourth round result at Roland Garros last spring, but he won't be making a return trip to Paris next week.

The sixth-ranked Roddick has withdrawn from the BNP Paribas Masters, which starts Sunday in Bercy, due to a knee injury that forced him to pull the plug on his opening match of last month's Shanghai Masters after playing seven games against Stanislas Wawrinka.

It marks the third time in the last four years Roddick has pulled out of Paris. He was a quarterfinalist at the tournament last fall and was a semifinalist in 2003 and 2005. Roddick has qualified for the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals set for London's O2 Arena starting on November 22nd.