{"id":456956,"date":"2026-05-19T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/456956\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:10:08","slug":"two-time-champ-alcaraz-withdraws-from-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/456956\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-time champ Alcaraz withdraws from Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz has withdrawn from Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old, who won the title in 2023 and 2024 before losing to Jannik Sinner in last year&#8217;s final, has been struggling with a wrist injury which has already forced him to pull out of the French Open.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday the Spaniard confirmed he would not participate at the All England Club this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My recovery is going well and I feel much better, but unfortunately I\u2019m still not ready to be able to play, and that\u2019s why I have to withdraw from the grass-court swing at Queen\u2019s and Wimbledon,&#8221; a post on Alcaraz\u2019s social media accounts read.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"es\">Mi recuperaci\u00f3n va por buen camino y me siento mucho mejor, pero desgraciadamente a\u00fan no estoy listo para poder jugar y por eso tengo que renunciar a la gira de hierba en Queen&#8217;s y Wimbledon. Son dos torneos realmente especiales para m\u00ed y los echar\u00e9 mucho de menos. Seguimos\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6IL0APkv5G\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/6IL0APkv5G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carlos Alcaraz (@carlosalcaraz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlosalcaraz\/status\/2056747873266540789\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are two really special tournaments for me and I\u2019ll miss them a lot. We keep working to return as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The year began well for Alcaraz. He beat Novak Djokovic in the final of the Australian Open to complete a career Grand Slam, adding to his two Wimbledon crowns and two French Open triumphs in 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Aged 22 at the time, he became the youngest man to achieve the feat.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz appeared to sustain the injury in a match at the Barcelona Open, with tests showing it was more serious than first thought and ruling him out of a tournament in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz has withdrawn from Wimbledon. The 23-year-old, who won the title in 2023 and 2024 before losing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-456956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}