Carlos Alcaraz has confirmed he’ll withdraw from Wimbledon as he continues to recuperate from the wrist harm which has already dominated him out of subsequent month’s French Open.
“My recovery is going well and I’m feeling much better, but unfortunately I’m still not ready to compete, which is why I have to withdraw from the grass-court swing at Queen’s and Wimbledon,” Alcaraz posted on Instagram.
“They’re two really particular tournaments for me and I’ll miss them rather a lot.
“We’ll keep working to come back as soon as possible.”
The world No 2 injured his wrist throughout his first-round victory over Otto Virtanen on the Barcelona Open on April 14.
Alcaraz was compelled to withdraw from the following spherical because the harm proved extra severe than first thought, after which needed to pull out of the Italian Open (Masters 1000) and French Open (Grand Slam) – two tournaments he was the defending champion in.
The Spaniard will now miss Wimbledon too on account of an irritation of the tendon sheath of the wrist – tenosynovitis – which can halt his run of consecutive SW19 finals at three (2023 and 2024 champion, 2025 runner-up).
Alcaraz completed 2025 having regained the world No 1 rating from rival Jannik Sinner, after which went on to win the primary Grand Slam of the yr on the Australian Open in January, including the Melbourne title to his six earlier Grand Slams received on the US Open (2022, 2025), Wimbledon (2023, 2024) and French Open (2024, 2025).
The 23-year-old fought from a set right down to comprehensively beat Novak Djokovic in Melbourne, taking his tally of Grand Slam titles to seven already.
In doing so, Alcaraz turned the youngest male participant to finish a profession Grand Slam, eclipsing Don Budge because the youngest to win all 4 – the American who wrapped up his on the 1938 French Open two days earlier than his twenty third birthday. Alcaraz did not flip 23 till Might.
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An injured Alcaraz was within the crowd supporting his youthful brother Jaime, who was making his debut within the U16 Madrid Open at simply 14-years-old
To place Alcaraz’s achievements so far into context, on the age of twenty-two Djokovic might depend only a solitary Grand Slam title, successful the 2008 Australian Open at 21 however not one other Grand Slam till 2011. Roger Federer solely received three Grand Slams earlier than the age of 23.
Alcaraz’s fellow Spaniard Rafael Nadal, who emerged onto the tennis scene as a phenom, squeezed in six Grand Slam titles by the age of 23 – however 4 of them have been on the identical occasion at Roland Garros. In Australia, Alcaraz broke new floor with a seventh.
It took the Spaniard 12 main campaigns since his first Grand Slam triumph in New York in 2022 to finish the total haul, obliterating the earlier Open Period file of 20 held by Nadal.
His present harm has robbed him of the possibility so as to add additional potential titles in Paris and London, nonetheless, with its timing notably premature.
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