Carlos Alcaraz said on Tuesday that he will not play the grass-court tournaments at Queen’s and Wimbledon as he continues to recover from a complicated right-wrist injury in Barcelona.
The Spaniard said his recovery is going well and that he feels much better, but he is still not ready to return. “My recovery is going well and I feel much better, but unfortunately I am still not ready to play and that is why I have to withdraw from the grass-court swing at Queen’s and Wimbledon,” Alcaraz said. “They are two tournaments that are really special to me and I will miss them a lot. We keep…”
The decision extends a run of absences that has already wiped out his last three tournaments. He withdrew from the round of 16 at the Conde de Godó, later chose not to play in Madrid, and then renounced Rome and Roland Garros. Each step has been framed as part of the same recovery, with the team opting for caution because the wrist has to return to 100 percent before he can compete again.
That caution carries more weight because Alcaraz is not just any injured player. In January, he became the youngest player of all time to collect the four Grand Slam titles, a milestone that underlined how quickly he had reached the top of the sport and placed him firmly among the players expected to shape the season’s biggest events.
Now the absence creates a different kind of pressure. Some pessimists had already suggested he might not even reach the US Open, and his latest withdrawal will only fuel questions about how long the recovery will take and what shape he will be in when he does come back. For now, there is no sign that the timetable is being rushed. The priority remains the wrist, not the calendar.
There is also a ranking angle. While Alcaraz sits out, Jannik Sinner could keep widening the gap at No. 1, adding another layer to a stretch that has already changed the balance at the top of the men’s game. The next checkpoint is not a tournament date but his own body, and whether the wrist is truly ready before he returns to competition.
