{"id":182224,"date":"2025-10-01T09:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/182224\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T09:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:47:10","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-withdraws-from-shanghai-masters-due-to-physical-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/182224\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz withdraws from Shanghai Masters due to ‘physical issues’"},"content":{"rendered":"

World number one Carlos Alcaraz said Tuesday he was pulling out of this week’s Shanghai Masters because of “physical issues”, shortly after winning the Japan Open.<\/p>\n

The Spaniard hurt his ankle in his opening match in Tokyo but shrugged off the issue to beat American Taylor Fritz<\/a> 6-4, 6-4<\/a> in the final in the Japanese capital on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Hours later, the 22-year-old posted on Instagram, saying: “I’m very disappointed to announce that I won’t be able to play the Rolex Shanghai Masters this year!<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately I’ve been struggling with some physical issues and, after discussing with my team, we believe the best decision is to rest and recover.”<\/p>\n

“I was really looking forward to playing in front of the amazing fans in Shanghai again,” added the recently crowned US Open champion.<\/p>\n

“I hope to be back soon and see my Chinese fans next year!”<\/p>\n

Alcaraz<\/a> injured his ankle last week as he ran for a shot, crumpling to the ground and sitting on the court for about five minutes.<\/p>\n

He returned to play with heavy strapping on his ankle and admitted that the injury had been on his mind throughout the tournament.<\/p>\n

“The start of the week was not really good with the ankle, and the way that I came back from that, playing a great tournament and great matches, I’m just really happy about it,” he said following his title win.<\/p>\n

It was his eighth title of a sensational season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number one Carlos Alcaraz said Tuesday he was pulling out of this week’s Shanghai Masters because of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-182224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}