Apr 15, 2026, 12:24 PM ET<\/p>\n
BARCELONA, Spain — Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> withdrew from the Barcelona Open after undergoing a test on his right wrist, the tournament announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n The withdrawal means the second-ranked Alcaraz cannot overtake top-ranked Jannik Sinner<\/a> and move back atop the rankings next week.<\/p>\n The move came a day after Alcaraz called for a trainer and had his wrist treated during his opening match, a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Otto Virtanen<\/a>.<\/p>\n Alcaraz was slated to play Tomas Machac<\/a> in the round of 16 on Thursday.<\/p>\n The 22-year-old Spaniard lost the No. 1 ranking after Sinner beat him in the Monte Carlo Masters final on Sunday.<\/p>\n Alcaraz’s next tournaments are the Madrid Open and the Italian Open before defending his French Open title.<\/p>\n Machac advances to the quarterfinals and will meet either Andrey Rublev<\/a> or Lorenzo Sonego<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 15, 2026, 12:24 PM ET BARCELONA, Spain — Carlos Alcaraz withdrew from the Barcelona Open after undergoing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-586239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}