MADRID.- The Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz points to US Openwhich begins on August 30, after announcing this Thursday his return to the slopes once he has overcome his wrist injury.
“I’m back. Here we go,” said the Spaniard, current world number two, in a short video on his Instagram account, after spending four months away from competition since suffering a wrist injury last April.
On his social networks, the Spaniard also showed a photo of himself against a background of US Openwhich won in 2022 and 2025, with the same slogan “Here we go” and two emoticons of an American flag and a waving hand.
Current champion of the US Open, where last year he beat Jannik Sinner in the final, Alcaraz seems to want to dispel with his announcement the doubts cast about his participation in the last grand slam of the season after his absence in the Cincinnati Masters.
Sinner’s presence, on the other hand, remains a mystery due to his knee problems.
“My right knee hurts and, although we have worked hard with my medical team, I have to accept that I am not yet ready for the competition,” declared the Italian on August 9 to announce his withdrawal in Cincinnati.
The longest drop
Alcaraz, 23, returns to the courts after suffering an injury to his right wrist during his participation in the tournament. Barcelona last April, which prevented him from being in the Madrid Masters 1000 and of Rome.
His injury also prevented him from participating in Roland Garros, where he could not defend his title, and in Wimbledon after winning last January the Australian Open with which he completed the big four.
Alcaraz was also able to win the title in Doha before suffering the problem in his wrist.
The injury is “a little more serious than we all expected,” Alcaraz had declared after announcing his withdrawal from the Madrid Masters 1000.
“We are clear that this has to recover very well if I don’t want it to harm me in the future,” added the winner of seven Grand Slam tournaments, who, at first, had not given too much importance to his illness.
From the beginning, the Murcian had stressed that he did not set deadlines for returning to the slopes and that he would only return when he was absolutely sure.
Alcaraz has not played an official match since April 14, when he beat the Finn Otto Virtanen in his debut in the tournament Count of Godó from Barcelona, in what has been his longest time away from the slopes.
Until this year, Alcaraz had only missed one Grand Slam tournament since making his main draw debut in 2021 at the Australian Open, with his absence in Melbourne in 2023 due to a muscle injury in his right leg.
The Murcian will return to the slopes in Flushing Meadowswhere in 2022 he won his first major title and reached number one in the world for the first time.
