Seven-time Grand Slam winner Carlos Alcaraz was expected to defend his ATP Masters 1000 \u200btitle in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n
Published On 5 Aug 20265 Aug 2026<\/p>\n
Carlos Alcaraz \u200chas pulled out of the Cincinnati Open due to \u2060a wrist \u2060injury, organisers have said, casting doubt over the Spaniard\u2019s fitness in the run-up to his US Open title \u2060defence this month.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know Carlos is doing everything he can to get back to playing tournaments as soon as possible,\u201d Cincinnati tournament director Bob Moran said in a statement late on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
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The seven-time Grand Slam champion has been sidelined since withdrawing from the Barcelona Open in the second round in April but had been \u2060set to return at the August 13-23 ATP Masters 1000 event in Cincinnati, which he won last year.<\/p>\n
Alcaraz was unable to defend his French Open title and missed Wimbledon as he continued his recovery, though the \u200c23-year-old signalled he was close to a return after posting videos of training sessions in the last few weeks.<\/p>\n
The Winston-Salem Open, which begins on August \u206023, would be the last chance for \u2060Alcaraz to get some matches under his belt before the US Open, though the world number two has yet to signal whether he intends to participate in the \u2060ATP 250 event.<\/p>\n
Alcaraz won last year\u2019s Cincinnati title after world number one Jannik Sinner retired \u2060from the final, and carried the momentum \u2060to Flushing Meadows, where he won his second US Open crown after his 2022 triumph.<\/p>\n
Alcaraz began the season by claiming the Australian Open title to become the \u200cyoungest man to complete the career Grand Slam. In his absence, Sinner successfully defended his Wimbledon title and took his major tally \u200cto five.<\/p>\n
The US Open gets under way on August 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven-time Grand Slam winner Carlos Alcaraz was expected to defend his ATP Masters 1000 \u200btitle in Cincinnati. Published…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1076,3,3662,1079,99,428,21,1209],"class_list":["post-803901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-europe","tag-news","tag-spain","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803901","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=803901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}