Carlos Alcaraz has pulled out of the Monte-Carlo Masters with an arm injury.
Alcaraz, who was recently overtaken by Jannik Sinner as the world No 2, said in a statement on X: “I have been working in Monte Carlo and trying to recover until the last minute from an injured pronator teres in my right arm, but it was not possible and I cannot play!
“I was really looking forward to playing… See you next year!”
I have been working in Monte Carlo and trying to recover until the last minute from an injured pronator teres in my right arm, but it was not possible and I cannot play! 🥲 I was really looking forward to playing… See you next year! @ROLEXMCMASTERS @atptour pic.twitter.com/hQ8ANcAxPI
— Carlos Alcaraz (@carlosalcaraz) April 9, 2024
The news is a blow for Alcaraz, who won the Indian Wells title last month after a tricky start to the year. It’s also not his first fitness issue of 2024, following the ankle injury that forced him out of the Rio Open in February.
Alcaraz recovered from that setback to claim his first title since Wimbledon last year at Indian Wells, before reaching the quarter-finals in Miami at the end of March.
Monte Carlo was scheduled to be his first event of the European clay-court season in the lead up to next month’s French Open.
Alcaraz has given no indication of how long the injury will keep him out for, but he is on the entry list for next week’s Barcelona Open, which he won two years ago. If he can’t make that, there will be concern ahead of Roland Garros, which begins on May 26.
Fitness permitting, Alcaraz will be one of the French Open favourites, having reached the semi-finals last year and twice won the Madrid Open, a Masters 1000 event one rung below the Grand Slams.
GO DEEPER
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