{"id":613292,"date":"2026-04-17T16:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/613292\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:45:11","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-pulls-out-of-madrid-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/613292\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz Pulls Out of Madrid \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Pagliaro | Friday, April 17, 2026<br \/>Photo credit: Cincinnati Open Facebook<\/p>\n<p>The Mutua Madrid Open has lost significant Spanish star power.<\/p>\n<p>World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz officially withdrew from next week\u2019s Mutua Madrid Open today as he continues recovery from the right wrist injury that forced him to pull out of Barcelona after his opening-round win over Otto Virtanen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisexpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\"  data-\/><\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>Reigning Australian Open, Roland Garros and US Open champion Alcaraz announced his departure from the Madrid field today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s some news that [is] incredibly hard to share. Madrid is home, one of the most special places on my calendar, and that\u2019s why it hurts so much not to be able to play here for the second year in a row,\u201d Alcaraz posted on X. \u201cIt hurts especially not to be in front of my people, in a tournament that means so much. Thank you for the unwavering affection, and I hope we see each other soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Hay noticias que cuesta much\u00edsimo dar. Madrid es casa, uno de los lugares m\u00e1s especiales del calendario para m\u00ed, y por eso me duele tanto no poder jugar aqu\u00ed por segundo a\u00f1o consecutivo. Me duele especialmente no poder estar delante de mi gente, en un torneo que es tan especial.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qr6bznFJod\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Qr6bznFJod<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carlos Alcaraz (@carlosalcaraz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlosalcaraz\/status\/2045140993293402438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 17, 2026<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Seven-time Grand Slam champion Alcaraz joins Grand Slam king Novak Djokovic, a three-time Madrid champion, in withdrawing from the event. The Mutua Madrid Open is set for April 20th-May 3rd.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Madrid, unfortunately I won\u2019t be able to compete <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MutuaMadridOpen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@MutuaMadridOpen<\/a> this year. I\u2019m continuing my recovery in order to be back soon. Hasta pronto!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Novak Djokovic (@DjokerNole) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DjokerNole\/status\/2045081591068741811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 17, 2026<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>After he pulled out of Barcelona this week, Alcaraz said the right wrist injury he sustained was more serious than he initially thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s strange and difficult to sit here for the second time and\u00a0communicate that I won\u2019t be able to continue in the tournament,\u201d the 2025 finalist Alcaraz told the media in Barcelona. \u201cAs you could all see, yesterday in the match after a return\u00a0my wrist beat me and I felt a discomfort that gradually got worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a situation that I had already felt previously and that I believed was not going to go any further, that it was only a demand for the whole week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut\u00a0looking at the evidence today, it is a slightly more serious injury\u00a0than we all expected.\u00a0I must listen to my body, what suits me best, that it does not affect me in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Friday, April 17, 2026Photo credit: Cincinnati Open Facebook The Mutua Madrid Open has lost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-613292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}