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Top seed Carlos Alcaraz has pulled out of the Barcelona Open with a wrist injury.<\/b><\/p>\n
The 22-year-old Spaniard beat Finnish qualifier Otto Virtanen in straight sets in his first-round match on Tuesday but suffered from discomfort during the contest.<\/p>\n
Alcaraz had been due to play Tomas Machac of the Czech Republic on Thursday but following medical tests on his right wrist has withdrawn from the tournament. <\/p>\n
“I felt my wrist give out on a return during the match. After the tests, we saw that it’s a more serious injury than any of us expected, and I have to listen to my body so it doesn’t affect me in the future,” said Alcaraz, who was replaced as world number one by Jannik Sinner earlier this week.<\/p>\n
“I have to go home to start my recovery as soon as possible with my team – the doctors, and the physical therapist – and get, or try to get, as healthy as possible as soon as possible for the tournaments I have coming up,” he said.<\/p>\n
Alcaraz will be hoping to be fit in time to try to win the French Open for a third consecutive time, with the 2026 tournament starting on 18 May.<\/p>\n
He had returned to action in Barcelona just 48 hours after he was beaten in the final of the Monte-Carlo Masters by Sinner.<\/p>\n
That victory meant the Italian returned to the top of the rankings for the first time since November.<\/p>\n
Alcaraz, who won the Barcelona Open in 2022 and 2023 and was a beaten finalist last year, would have regained top spot from Sinner had he won this year’s edition.<\/p>\n
It is the second time in three years injury has forced Alcaraz to withdraw from the clay-court tournament in the Catalan capital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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