{"id":628436,"date":"2026-04-24T18:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/628436\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:57:09","slug":"french-open-carlos-alcaraz-to-miss-grand-slam-title-defence-with-wrist-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/628436\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open: Carlos Alcaraz to miss Grand Slam title defence with wrist injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Alcaraz wore a cast at the Laureus Sports Awards earlier this week, it was an ominous sign. The scan that he had in Madrid has not provided any reassurance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wrist injuries are notoriously problematic for tennis players &#8211; and taking a gamble when a problem arises can be very costly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A player struggling with a wrist injury needs to carefully manage the issue and it was telling how Alcaraz spoke in his statement about needing to &#8220;be cautious&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As was the fact he is not putting a time frame on his return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clearly there is a huge load put through the joint &#8211; not just as a player prepares for each tournament in their senior career &#8211; but across all the years they have been honing their technique since first picking up a racquet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former US Open champion Dominic Thiem, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c254yyk1gydo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had to retire in 2024 after his own wrist problems,<\/a> says the repetition of hitting thousands of balls across so many years is what makes the wrist so vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Different balls across different tournaments &#8211; with varying weights and bounces &#8211; is seen as another reason why the stress put on the joint is exacerbated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Alcaraz wore a cast at the Laureus Sports Awards earlier this week, it was an ominous sign.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-628436","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\/628436","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=628436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}