{"id":32031,"date":"2026-04-15T19:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=32031"},"modified":"2026-04-15T19:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:11:20","slug":"alcaraz-withdraws-from-barcelona-open-due-to-wrist-injury","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/alcaraz-withdraws-from-barcelona-open-due-to-wrist-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz withdraws from Barcelona Open due to wrist injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">World number two Carlos Alcaraz has withdrawn from \u200bthe Barcelona Open after injuring \u200chis right wrist, tournament organisers said on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The Spaniard picked up \u200bthe injury during a \u200b6-4 6-2 first-round win over \u2060Otto Virtanen but was \u200bable to complete the match \u200bdespite discomfort.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>A two-time champion in Barcelona, Alcaraz had returned to competition just \u200b48 hours after losing \u200bthe Monte-Carlo Masters final to rival Jannik \u200cSinner.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Spanish \u2060media reported that Alcaraz skipped training on Wednesday ahead of his scheduled second-round match \u200bagainst Czech \u200bTomas \u2060Machac.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Alcaraz is expected to return to action \u200bin Madrid and Rome \u200bas \u2060he builds towards the defence of his French Open title, \u2060which \u200bbegins in Paris \u200bon May 24.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22696,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-32031","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Alcaraz is expected to return to action \u200bin Madrid.","published_date":"","news_description":"Alcaraz is expected to return to action \u200bin Madrid.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32032,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32031\/revisions\/32032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=32031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}