Carlos Alcaraz knockout, photo scares fans of Jannik Sinner rival: "Now it’s almost impossible"

Carlos Alcaraz’s wrist injury threatens to severely affect the season of the Murcia tennis player, who just lost the number one ATP ranking to Jannik Sinner. The Spanish champion has been forced to skip Madrid but risks not even being there at the Internazionali d’Italia and Roland Garros.

Madrid tournament director Feliciano Lopez at the microphones of Radioestadio was very pessimistic: “I have been out of action for about two months because of a wrist problem, but I don’t know what the extent of his injury is. When it happened to me I couldn’t even hold the racket in my hand. Injury due to overload accumulated in the last few tournaments? You come in tired and something like that can happen. The wrist has a lot of small bones and tendons, I really hope there is no rupture. I think it’s almost impossible for him to play in Rome, hopefully he can recover for Paris,” Lopez said dramatically. I hope he can recover as soon as possible because it is an important moment of the season for him. It’s true that Carlos can win in all surfaces but there are about 4,000 points at stake and the prestige of three major tournaments.”

In the meantime, a disturbing photo of Alcaraz with a female fan is circulating on social media: the wrist of his right hand is completely immobilized with a bandage. Concern is growing among fans of the seven-time Slam champion.

Making the picture even heavier is the ranking issue. Alcaraz had arrived in Barcelona with a real chance to regain the world number one ranking, but in just a few days the situation was completely reversed. With the withdrawal in the Catalan tournament, the Spaniard lost 280 points flat, bringing the gap with Sinner to 390 lengths. And in the coming weeks, the bill could get even steeper: the Murcian risks losing up to 3,000 ATP points, considering that last year he won both the Internazionali d’Italia and Roland Garros, beating Sinner in the final on both occasions.