Carlos Alcaraz raised serious concerns as he fell to the court after appearing to suffer an injury early in his debut match at the Japan Open.<\/p>\n
The world No 1 took a 2-0 lead against 41st-ranked Sebastian Baez in his opening round match at the ATP 500 tournament before his 24-year-old Argentine opponent levelled.<\/p>\n
With Baez serving at 2-2, Alcaraz pulled up and fell to the court after moving to chase down a drop shot from deep behind the baseline.<\/p>\n
Alcaraz<\/a> lay on his back and covered his face with his hand as he looked in visible pain and distress.<\/p>\n The issue appeared to be with Alcaraz\u2019s left ankle or Achilles, and the Spaniard received treatment from the physio mid-game.<\/p>\n Alcaraz in serious discomfort<\/p>\n Doesnt look good. Achiles?pic.twitter.com\/uBAU6HVsXQ<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Tennis Masterr (@tennismasterr) September 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Despite the scare, Alcaraz was in good enough condition to continue and, while he was not in full flight in terms of movement, went up a break at 5-4 in the first set before play was suspended due to rain.<\/p>\n The six-time Grand Slam champion is playing the Tokyo tournament for the first time in his career, having previously appeared at the China Open in Beijing in the same week of the calendar.<\/p>\n Everything Carlos Alcaraz said after serious Japan Open injury scare<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Is Carlos Alcaraz risking injury by taking on a \u2018crazy\u2019 schedule?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n In his pre-tournament press conference, Alcaraz spoke about making his Japan Open debut.<\/p>\n \u201cI know it is a great tournament. I know the players who have played this tournament before and the players who have won this tournament before,\u201d the Spaniard said.<\/p>\n \u201cI just really wanted to come here, play great tennis, perform well and try to win the trophy. That\u2019s why I\u2019m here just to feel great on court, giving myself the chance to win the trophy to win the tournament.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the end of the week I just really want to put my name next to the past champions that I know it\u2019s an honour to be next to, to those names as well.\u201d<\/p>\n Alcaraz added: \u201cI\u2019m really excited about playing in different places, in different stadiums, and feel the energy from the Japanese people.\u201d<\/p>\n The 22-year-old, who won his second US Open title earlier this month, competed at the Laver Cup in San Francisco last week \u2014 playing four matches across singles and doubles.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Japan Open predictions: Will Carlos Alcaraz and Taylor Fritz book final clash?<\/a> The post WATCH: Carlos Alcaraz falls to the court in big injury scare on Japan Open debut<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Alcaraz raised serious concerns as he fell to the court after appearing to suffer an injury early in his debut match at the Japan Open. The world No 1 took a 2-0 lead against 41st-ranked Sebastian Baez in his opening round match at the ATP 500 tournament before his 24-year-old Argentine opponent levelled. With […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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