Tennis – Australian Open: Injured in the right leg, Carlos Alcaraz withdraws

Carlos Alcaraz will still have to wait to make his return to the circuit. Victim of an abdominal tear last November, the Spaniard, who had abandoned during the Rolex Paris Masters once morest Holger Rune (6-3, 3-1) in the quarter-finals two months following being crowned at the US Openwill have to give up the Australian Open (January 16-29) as he announced Friday evening on his Twitter account.

“When I was in the best moment of pre-season, I injured myself forcing a move in training, this time to a muscle in my right legthe 19-year-old wrote. I had however worked a lot to reach my best level in Australia…” A year following seeing Novak Djokovic be expelled from Australian territory, because of his vaccination status, Melbourne will once once more be deprived of the world number one.

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It’s even a curse on the ATP circuit: for the third time in the last five Grand Slam tournaments, the world number one is absent (note: Djokovic in Australia last year, Medvedev at Wimbledon in June and therefore Alcaraz in Australia in January), whereas it had only happened twice since the beginning of the 2000s (note: Kuerten at Wimbledon 2021 and Nadal at Wimbledon 2009). Last year in Melbourne, Carlos Alcaraz stopped at the third round stage, following his defeat once morest Matteo Berrettini (6-2, 7-6, 4-6, 2-6, 7-6).

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