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Carlos Alcaraz withdraws from Wimbledon with wrist injury

Carlos Alcaraz says he will ⁠skip Wimbledon ⁠as he recovers from the right wrist injury that also forced the Spaniard ⁠out of the French Open, the world number two men’s tennis player said on Tuesday.

The 23-year-old ⁠seven-time Grand Slam champion has not played since withdrawing from the Barcelona Open last month.

“My recovery is going well and I feel much ‌better, but unfortunately I’m still not ready to be able to play, and that’s why I have to withdraw from the grass-court swing at Queen’s and Wimbledon,” the 2023 and 2024 Wimbledon champion wrote ⁠on X.

Alcaraz’s rivalry with ⁠Italian Jannik Sinner has captivated men’s tennis, and his absence from the next two Grand Slam tournaments is a ⁠huge blow to fans and broadcasters alike.

The pair contested ⁠an epic French Open final ⁠last year, with Alcaraz coming back to win the title before Sinner turned the tables to take the ‌Wimbledon crown.

Alcaraz became the youngest man to complete the career Grand Slam this year when ‌he ‌won the Australian Open. (AlJazeera)

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Reigning two-time champ Carlos Alcaraz out of French Open due to wrist injury

Carlos Alcaraz won’t play for a third successive French Open title due to a right wrist injury.

Alcaraz posted on X on Friday that neither would he appear in the preceding Italian Open in Rome, where he also won last year.

No. 2-ranked Alcaraz was injured at the Barcelona Open this month during his first-round win and withdrew the day after.

He pulled out of this week’s Madrid Open and attended the Laureus World Sports Awards in the Spanish capital on Monday with his wrist immobilized. Alcaraz was named world sportsman of the year at the gala.

Alcaraz confirmed he was a no-go for Paris after undergoing more medical tests on Friday.

“After the results of the tests carried out today, we have decided that the most prudent thing is to be cautious and not participate in Rome and Roland Garros,” he wrote on X. “It’s a complicated moment for me, but I’m sure we’ll come out stronger from here.”

Alcaraz started the year in sensational form, beating Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open final. That made him the youngest man ever to win all four major titles in tennis.

He has won only one title since — at Doha in February — and will be without a title in the major clay-court events. He lost the Monte Carlo final to Jannik Sinner at the start of this month and surrendered the No. 1 ranking to his Italian rival.

Last year, Alcaraz beat Sinner in the finals of the Italian Open and French Open, where he saved three match points in an epic match. Alcaraz then lost the Wimbledon final to Sinner before beating him again in the U.S. Open final.

The Italian Open starts on May 5. The French Open does so on May 18. (JapanToday)