Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic Withdraw from Madrid

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The Mutua Madrid Open has misplaced vital Spanish star energy.

World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz formally withdrew from subsequent week’s Mutua Madrid Open in the present day as he continues restoration from the appropriate wrist damage that compelled him to drag out of Barcelona after his opening-round win over Otto Virtanen.

Reigning Australian Open, Roland Garros and US Open champion Alcaraz introduced his departure from the Madrid subject in the present day.

“There’s some information that [is] extremely arduous to share. Madrid is dwelling, one of the vital particular locations on my calendar, and that’s why it hurts a lot not to have the ability to play right here for the second 12 months in a row,” Alcaraz posted on X. “It hurts particularly to not be in entrance of my folks, in a match meaning a lot. Thanks for the unwavering affection, and I hope we see one another quickly.”

Hay noticias que cuesta muchísimo dar. Madrid es casa, uno de los lugares más especiales del calendario para mí, y por eso me duele tanto no poder jugar aquí por segundo año consecutivo. Me duele especialmente no poder estar delante de mi gente, en un torneo que es tan especial.… pic.twitter.com/Qr6bznFJod

— Carlos Alcaraz (@carlosalcaraz) April 17, 2026

Seven-time Grand Slam champion Alcaraz joins Grand Slam king Novak Djokovic, a three-time Madrid champion, in withdrawing from the occasion. The Mutua Madrid Open is about for April Twentieth-Could third.

After he pulled out of Barcelona this week, Alcaraz stated the appropriate wrist damage he sustained was extra critical than he initially thought.

“It’s unusual and troublesome to sit down right here for the second time and talk that I gained’t have the ability to proceed within the match,” the 2025 finalist Alcaraz instructed the media in Barcelona. “As you possibly can all see, yesterday within the match after a return my wrist beat me and I felt a discomfort that progressively bought worse.

“It’s a state of affairs that I had already felt beforehand and that I believed was not going to go any additional, that it was solely a requirement for the entire week.

“However trying on the proof in the present day, it’s a barely extra critical damage than all of us anticipated. I have to hearken to my physique, what fits me finest, that it doesn’t have an effect on me sooner or later.”