Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s early withdrawal from Wimbledon was a major blow, and the grass-court Grand Slam has now been hit by another big name pulling out.<\/p>\n
The start of the 2026 Wimbledon Championships<\/a> is still over two weeks away, with the 139th edition of the historic tournament set to be held from 29 June to 12 July.<\/p>\n By Thursday, there were five players who had pulled out of Wimbledon across both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles entry lists<\/a>, and that number has now risen to seven.<\/p>\n Following Alcaraz, Victoria Mboko<\/a> \u2014 the WTA world No 9 \u2014 is the second top 10 player to withdraw from the year\u2019s third major.<\/p>\n The Canadian star\u2019s withdrawal came after she was forced to retire in her opening singles match at the Queen\u2019s Club Championships on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Mboko hurt her left knee in a nasty fall, and she has since revealed she sustained an MCL injury.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cUnfortunately, my fall on Wednesday caused an injury to the MCL on my left knee, which sadly means I will miss the remainder of the grass season,\u201d the 19-year-old wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n Nick Kyrgios and Stan Wawrinka handed fresh Wimbledon wildcard setback<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Wimbledon\u2019s \u00a364.2m prize money boost won\u2019t silence players, warn finance experts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThis unfortunately means Wimbledon too, a tournament I had been so looking forward to playing this year.<\/p>\n \u201cI am receiving the best medical care and my team and I are focused on a return to court as soon as possible. Thank you to everyone who has reached out and sent messages of support, I am so grateful to you all!\u201d<\/p>\n World No 2 Alcaraz won Wimbledon in 2023 and 2024, while he was a runner-up at the All England Club to Jannik Sinner in 2025.<\/p>\n The 23-year-old Spaniard withdrew from Wimbledon over a month before the start date due to a right wrist injury that has prevented him from playing since the Barcelona Open in April.<\/p>\n \u201cMy recovery is going well, and I feel much better, but unfortunately, I\u2019m still not ready to be able to play, and that\u2019s why I have to withdraw from the grass-court swing at Queen\u2019s and Wimbledon,\u201d the seven-time major champion said last month.<\/p>\n Monegasque star Valentin Vacherot and Frenchman Arthur Cazaux are the other men to withdraw from Wimbledon.<\/p>\n Before Mboko\u2019s withdrawal, Hailey Baptiste, Varvara Gracheva and Sonay Kartal all pulled out of the women\u2019s singles event due to injuries.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Wimbledon share official response regarding Serena Williams receiving a wildcard<\/a> The post Wimbledon withdrawal list: Victoria Mboko joins Carlos Alcaraz as 7 stars out<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s early withdrawal from Wimbledon was a major blow, and the grass-court Grand Slam has now been hit by another big name pulling out. The start of the 2026 Wimbledon Championships is still over two weeks away, with the 139th edition of the historic tournament set to be held from 29 June to 12 […]<\/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-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","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=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Wimbledon News<\/h2>\n
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