Carlos Alcaraz will play the US Open. The Spanish champion himself announced it on his Instagram profile.
The wrist injury
Sidelined since last April due to the wrist injury suffered at the Barcelona tournament, the Spanish tennis player is ready to return to the US slam.
“I’m back,” Alcaraz assured his fans in a short video, saying “Estoy de vuelta! Here we go!”
The 23-year-old from Murcia recently fell third place in the world rankingsbehind the Italian Jannik Sinner and the German Alexander Zverev. Now, after having missed the Roland Garros and Wimbledon Majors and the Masters 1000 in Madrid, Rome, Montreal and Cincinnati (currently underway) due to well-known wrist problems – tenosynovitis involving the triangular fibrocartilage – he is ready to return to the stage at the US Open.
In the fourth and final round of the Grand Slam season, the start on the concrete of Flushing Meadows Park in New York from Sunday 30 August, Alcaraz presents himself as the reigning champion. However, the form of the Iberian tennis player, who has been absent from the international circuit for over four months, remains to be understood.
Failure to be called up for the Davis Cup
Meanwhile Alcaraz he was not called up for the Davis Cup matchwhich will see Spain playing in Chile over the weekend between 18 and 20 September. For the second and final qualifying round for the Final Eight in Bologna, in fact, the captain of Spain, David Ferrer, has called up Rafael Jodar, Martin Landaluce, Pedro Martinez, Daniel Merida and Jaume Munar.