PARIS, FRANCE – JUNE 08: Carlos Alcaraz of Spain celebrates winning championship point against Jannik Sinner of Italy in the Men’s Singles Final match on Day Fifteen of the 2025 French Open at Roland Garros on June 08, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Adam Pretty/Getty Images)
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Carlos Alcaraz won’t be defending his Roland Garros title this spring.
The world No. 2 has withdrawn from the clay court Grand Slam due to a wrist injury. He also won’t play in Rome and is missing Madrid this week. He reportedly has a “full splint around his right wrist.”
The French Open runs May 24-June 7.
“After the results of the tests carried out today, we have decided that the most prudent thing is to be cautious and not participate in Rome and Roland Garros, while we wait to assess the evolution to decide when we will return to the court,” he announced on social media. “It’s a complicated moment for me, but I’m sure we’ll come out stronger from here”
Alcaraz has won seven Grand Slam singles titles, including the last two French Open titles in 2024 and ’25. He and world No. 1 Jannik Sinner have won the last nine straight major titles.
Last year, Alcaraz roared back from two sets down to defeat Sinner in five sets.
Sinner was up 5-3, 0-40 on Alcaraz’s serve in the fourth set and the Spaniard saved three championship points.
Spanish TV show El Partido de COPE reported Alcaraz has an inflamed tendon sheath in his wrist.
“In the sheath of the tendon, which is inflamed,” Angel Ga Muñiz said. “His wrist has been immobilised for four days, since last Friday. And that test, that decisive test, that key test that Carlos Alcaraz talks about is a follow-up ultrasound.
“The first one was done right after the injury in Barcelona. At that very moment, the decision was already made that Madrid was impossible and it was already suspected that Rome would also be very difficult, and they were dreaming about Roland Garros. Now that dream seems a bit further away.
“Everything depends on what comes out in that follow-up ultrasound, on whether the inflammation has gone down, on whether that sheath that protects the tendon is better. But obviously Rome now seems absolutely impossible, and Roland Garros looks bad.”
After Roland Garros, Wimbledon follows shortly between June 29-July 12.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamzagoria/2026/04/24/defending-champion-carlos-alcaraz-withdraws-from-french-open/
