{"id":844196,"date":"2026-08-05T08:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T08:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/844196\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T08:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T08:34:14","slug":"doubts-grow-over-carlos-alcarazs-us-open-defence-after-latest-withdrawal-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/844196\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubts grow over Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s US Open defence after latest withdrawal | Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Alcaraz has pulled out of the Cincinnati Open due to an \u2060ongoing wrist injury, casting fresh doubts over the Spaniard\u2019s fitness ahead of his \u2060US Open title \u2060defence this \u200bmonth.<\/p>\n

The seven-times Grand Slam champion has been sidelined since withdrawing from the Barcelona Open second round in April \u2060but had been set to return at the ATP Masters 1000 event in Cincinnati, which he won last \u2060year.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz was unable to defend his French Open title and missed Wimbledon \u200bas he continued his recovery, \u200cthough the 23-year-old \u200csignalled he was close to a return after posting videos of training \u200csessions in the last few weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know Carlos is doing everything he can to get back to playing tournaments as soon as possible,\u201d Cincinnati tournament director Bob Moran said.<\/p>\n

The Winston-Salem Open, which begins on 23 August, would be the last \u200cchance for Alcaraz to get some matches under his belt before the US Open, though the world No 2 \u200bhas yet to signal whether he intends to participate in the ATP 250 event.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz won last year\u2019s Cincinnati title after world No 1 Jannik Sinner retired from the final, and carried the momentum to Flushing \u2060Meadows where he won his second US Open crown after his \u200btriumph in 2022.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz \u200bbegan the season by claiming \u200bthe Australian Open title to become the youngest man \u200bto complete \u200cthe career Grand \u200bSlam. In \u200bhis absence, Sinner successfully defended his Wimbledon title and took his major tally to five.<\/p>\n

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The US Open gets underway on 30 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz has pulled out of the Cincinnati Open due to an \u2060ongoing wrist injury, casting fresh doubts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-844196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844196","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=844196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}