Carlos Alcaraz is not setting any deadlines for his comeback from injury, according to a former ATP player who spoke to the Spanish star.<\/p>\n
World No 2\u00a0Alcaraz<\/a> has not played since hurting his right wrist during his opening round win over Otto Virtanen at the Barcelona Open on 14 April.<\/p>\n Alcaraz withdrew before his second round match in Barcelona and said: \u201cIt\u2019s a more serious injury than we all expected, and I have to listen to my body so it doesn\u2019t affect me in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n Two days later, Alcaraz pulled out of the Madrid Masters, and a week after that, he withdrew from both the Italian Open and the French Open.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter the results of the tests carried out today, we have decided that the most prudent thing is to be cautious and not participate in Rome or Roland Garros, while we wait to assess the progress in order to decide when we will return to the court,\u201d Alcaraz wrote on social media.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a complicated moment for me, but I\u2019m sure we will come out of this stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n The seven-time Grand Slam winner is yet to reveal when he might make his return to action.<\/p>\n ATP Italian Open: Points being defended by Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, Alexander Zverev<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz posts a one word message for his brother after watching him win in Madrid<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as\u00a0<\/span>a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n Pablo Andujar, a former Spanish player who reached a career-high ranking of world No 32, has divulged that he spoke with Alcaraz last week.<\/p>\n The 40-year-old, who played between 2004 and 2023, shed light on his conversation with Alcaraz in an interview with RNE Deportes<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cLet me tell you, I was lucky enough to talk to him for five minutes the day before yesterday, and he told me that he wants to come back when he\u2019s 100%,\u201d Andujar said.<\/p>\n \u201cHe doesn\u2019t set deadlines; he takes it day by day.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause it\u2019s true that I, for example, have my own experience of having had three operations\u2026 well, five operations on my elbow.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you set deadlines, if you don\u2019t reach that deadline, that goal can create a certain anxiety, even a little depression.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I think the important thing is that he takes it day by day, and I see him as very aware that when he comes back, he\u2019ll already be 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Italian Open withdrawals: Carlos Alcaraz among 13 stars to pull out as Wimbledon winner joins list<\/a> The post What Carlos Alcaraz said about his injury in private chat with ex-Spanish player revealed<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Alcaraz is not setting any deadlines for his comeback from injury, according to a former ATP player who spoke to the Spanish star. World No 2\u00a0Alcaraz has not played since hurting his right wrist during his opening round win over Otto Virtanen at the Barcelona Open on 14 April. Alcaraz withdrew before his second […]<\/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-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","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=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ATP Tour News<\/h2>\n
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