{"id":604017,"date":"2026-04-24T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/604017\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:20:08","slug":"french-open-carlos-alcaraz-to-miss-grand-slam-title-defence-with-wrist-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/604017\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open: Carlos Alcaraz to miss Grand Slam title defence with wrist injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alcaraz began the year by winning his first Australian Open title &#8211; becoming the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cz9vzxjykkxo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">youngest man to complete the career Grand Slam<\/a> &#8211; and would have been looking to kick on further, as he often does when the clay season gets under way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The seven-time Grand Slam champion won clay-court titles in Monte Carlo, Rome and Roland Garros last season, and reached the final in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c8dl5qge2r8o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost the world number one ranking<\/a> to long-term rival Jannik Sinner this month, after losing to him in the Monte Carlo final, and could lose significant ground to the Italian in the rankings while sidelined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also opens up the opportunity for Sinner to secure his own career Grand Slam &#8211; winning each of the major tournaments at least once &#8211; with the French Open the only one missing from his collection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since qualifying for his first Slam in 2021, Spain&#8217;s Alcaraz has only missed one &#8211; when he had to withdraw from the 2023 Australian Open with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alcaraz began the year by winning his first Australian Open title &#8211; becoming the youngest man to complete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-604017","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\/604017","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=604017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}