{"id":846355,"date":"2026-08-05T00:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T00:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/846355\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T00:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T00:34:11","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-withdraws-from-the-cincinnati-open-because-of-a-lingering-wrist-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/846355\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz withdraws from the Cincinnati Open because of a lingering wrist injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Carlos Alcaraz withdrew Tuesday from the Cincinnati Open because of a lingering right wrist injury that has sidelined him since April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The No. 2-ranked Spaniard was hoping to return to defend his title in the hard-court tournament, which serves as an important warmup for the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe know Carlos is doing everything he can to get back to playing tournaments as soon as possible,\u201d tournament director Bob Moran said in a statement. \u201cWe wish him the best with his recovery and look forward to welcoming him back to Cincinnati in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alcaraz last played at the Barcelona Open, then missed the French Open and the entire grass-court season, including Wimbledon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is entered in the U.S. Open, where he is the defending champion. Recent photos and videos on social media have shown the seven-time Grand Slam winner on the practice courts, so it was thought he would be ready to play in the Cincinnati event that begins Aug. 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Carlos Alcaraz withdrew Tuesday from the Cincinnati Open because of a lingering right wrist injury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-846355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846355","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=846355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}