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Two-time Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz on Tuesday said he is pulling out of the grass-court Grand Slam event next month because of his lingering wrist injury.
Alcaraz injured his right wrist at the Barcelona Open last month and had already withdrawn from the the French Open that starts this weekend. He won the clay-court tournament the last two years.
“My recovery is going well and I’m feeling much better,” Alcaraz posted on his social media accounts, “but unfortunately I’m still not ready to compete.”
Alcaraz started the year by winning the Australian Open to become the youngest man ever to win all four major titles in tennis.
Alcaraz won back-to-back Wimbledon titles in 2023 and ’24, beating Novak Djokovic in both finals. He lost in the final last year to Jannik Sinner in another chapter of what shapes to be a generational rivalry.
“They are two truly special tournaments for me and I will miss them a lot,” Alcaraz said of missing Wimbledon and the warmup event at Queen’s Club in London. “We’ll keep working to come back as soon as possible!”
In last year’s Wimbledon final, Alcaraz defeated Novak Djokovic 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (4) for his fourth Grand Slam title at age 21.
It was a rematch of the 2024 championship match on the grass of the All England Club in London.
The Spaniard won his first Slam title at the 2022 U.S. Open as a teenager, and no man ever has collected more Slam hardware before turning 22 than he has. He improved to 4-0 in major finals with last year’s Wimbledon title.
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In a rematch of last year’s championship Carlos Alcaraz defeated Novak Djokovic 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (4) to capture his fourth Grand Slam title.
Auger-Aliassime dominant in 2nd set
Top-seeded Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the second round of the Hamburg Open with a 7-5, 6-1 win over Czechia’s Vit Kopriva on Tuesday.
The 25-year-old from Montreal took the competitive first set when he scored the first break of the match in the final game.
Auger-Aliassime then dominated the second set, scoring breaks in the second and fourth games en route to a 5-0 lead.
After Kopriva held serve, Auger-Aliassime opened the decisive game with his eighth ace of the match before wrapping up the victory in one hour 25 minutes.
Auger-Aliassime will next face American lucky loser Aleksandar Kovacevic at the ATP 500 clay-court tournament.
The Canadian, ranked fifth in the world, is looking for a good run on clay in Hamburg before the French Open main draw, which begins Sunday.
Mboko top seed in France
Victoria Mboko and Leylah Fernandez will meet in an all-Canadian quarterfinal at the Strasbourg International tennis tournament in France.
Mboko, the top seed at the WTA 500 clay-court event, advanced with a 6-4, 6-3 win over 2025 French Open semifinalist Lois Boisson.
Earlier, seventh-seed Fernandez defeated Poland’s Magdalena Frech 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.
Thursday’s quarterfinal will mark the second meeting between the 19-year-old Mboko, from Burlington, Ont., and 23-year-old Fernandez of Laval, Que.
Mboko defeated Fernandez 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the semifinals of last year’s Hong Kong Open en route to winning her second WTA title.
The players are gearing up for this year’s French Open, which begins Sunday. Mboko reached the third round at Roland Garros last year in her Grand Slam debut, while Fernandez made it to the quarterfinals in 2022.