{"id":13780,"date":"2026-04-24T18:01:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13780"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:01:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:01:02","slug":"french-open-carlos-alcaraz-to-miss-grand-slam-title-defence-with-wrist-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13780","title":{"rendered":"French Open: Carlos Alcaraz to miss Grand Slam title defence with wrist injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alcaraz began the year by winning his first Australian Open title &#8211; becoming the youngest man to complete the career Grand Slam &#8211; and would have been looking to kick on further, as he often does when the clay season gets under way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The seven-time Grand Slam champion won clay-court titles in Monte Carlo, Rome and Roland Garros last season, and reached the final in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He lost the world number one ranking to long-term rival Jannik Sinner this month, after losing to him in the Monte Carlo final, and could lose significant ground to the Italian in the rankings while sidelined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also opens up the opportunity for Sinner to secure his own career Grand Slam &#8211; winning each of the major tournaments at least once &#8211; with the French Open the only one missing from his collection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since qualifying for his first Slam in 2021, Spain&#8217;s Alcaraz has only missed one &#8211; when he had to withdraw from the 2023 Australian Open with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcaraz began the year by winning his first Australian Open title &#8211; becoming the youngest man to complete the career Grand Slam &#8211; and would have been looking to kick on further, as he often does when the clay season gets under way. The seven-time Grand Slam champion won clay-court titles in Monte Carlo, Rome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}