{"id":621112,"date":"2026-05-03T13:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/621112\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T13:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:44:14","slug":"13-stars-out-as-carlos-alcaraz-joined-by-wimbledon-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/621112\/","title":{"rendered":"13 stars out as Carlos Alcaraz joined by Wimbledon winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of players to withdraw from the 2026 Italian Open has risen to 13 across both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles tournaments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/italian-open-withdrawals-carlos-alcaraz-leads-list-doubts-novak-djokovic-emma-raducanu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Thursday, 10 players had pulled out of the combined ATP\/WTA 1000 event across both draws<\/a>, with Carlos Alcaraz, Taylor Fritz and Jack Draper among the stars to withdraw. Since then, two men and one women have joined the list.<\/p>\n<p>The prestigious tournament at the Foro Italico is the third clay-court ATP Masters 1000 of the season and the second clay-court WTA 1000.<\/p>\n<p>Both the ATP and WTA tournaments in Rome feature 96 players, including 32 seeds \u2014 who receive an opening round bye.<\/p>\n<p>Main draw action at the women\u2019s event will begin on Tuesday 5 May, while the men\u2019s tournament will get underway on Wednesday 6 May. The women\u2019s singles final will be played on Saturday 16 May before the men\u2019s singles final on Sunday 17 May.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Alcaraz and Jasmine Paolini were the champions in Rome in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>More Tennis News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/atp-italian-open-2026-entry-list-sinner-djokovic-alcaraz-among-withdrawals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ATP Italian Open 2026 Entry List, Draw Date: Sinner, Djokovic headline; Alcaraz, Draper among withdrawals<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/jannik-sinner-carlos-alcaraz-drop-shot-admission-madrid-open\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madrid Open: Jannik Sinner makes Carlos Alcaraz comment as he reveals how he is \u2018trying to improve\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Want more from Tennis365? Add us as\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tennis365.com\" target=\"_blank\">a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a>\u00a0for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/p>\n<p>ATP Italian Open withdrawal list<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz and Fritz would have been seeded second and seventh respectively in Rome, but they withdrew due to injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Draper \u2014 who has been ruled out due to a knee injury \u2014 is currently ranked 28th, but he would not have been seeded as his ranking will drop next week.<\/p>\n<p>Holger Rune will not compete as he is gearing up for his comeback from an Achilles injury.<\/p>\n<p>Reilly Opelka and Raphael Collignon are the two latest ATP players to pull out.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Alcaraz (world No 2) \u2013 replaced by Sebastian Ofner<br \/>\nTaylor Fritz (world No 7) \u2013 replaced by Zachary Svajda<br \/>\nJack Draper (world No 28) \u2013 replaced by Hamad Medjedovic<br \/>\nHolger Rune (world No 39) \u2013 replaced by Damir Dzumhur<br \/>\nReilly Opelka (world No 70) \u2013 replaced by Aleksandar Vukic<br \/>\nRaphael Collignon (world No 71) \u2013 replaced by Alexandre Muller<br \/>\nArthur Cazaux (world No 73) \u2013 replaced by Mattia Bellucci<br \/>\nKamil Majchrzak (world No 74) \u2013 replaced by Roberto Bautista Agut<br \/>\nEliot Spizzirri (world No 82) \u2013 replaced by James Duckworth<\/p>\n<p>WTA Italian Open withdrawal list<\/p>\n<p>Marketa Vondrousova, a former world No 6 who won Wimbledon in 2023, has become the latest and highest-ranked woman to withdraw from Rome. The 26-year-old Czech has not played since January.<\/p>\n<p>Marketa Vondrousova (world No 45) \u2013 replaced by Solana Sierra<br \/>\nSonay Kartal (world No 55) \u2013 replaced by Zeynep Sonmez<br \/>\nVarvara Gracheva (world No 60) \u2013 replaced by Eva Lys<br \/>\nVeronika Kudermetova (world No 64) \u2013 replaced by Petra Marcinko<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/madrid-open-mirra-andreeva-marta-kostyuk-ranking-points-prize-money\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madrid Open: What ranking points and prize money did Marta Kostyuk and Mirra Andreeva earn?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of players to withdraw from the 2026 Italian Open has risen to 13 across both the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-621112","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\/621112","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=621112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}