Carlos Alcaraz is edging closer to making his long-awaited return to tennis as his name has finally appeared on the entry list for one of the upcoming events of the North American swing.<\/p>\n
The seven-time Grand Slam winner last played a match on the ATP Tour<\/a> on 14 April when he won his opening match at the Barcelona Open, but his win over Otto Virtanen was a bittersweet one as he picked up a wrist injury<\/a> during the encounter.<\/p>\n He withdrew from the tournament the following day and was subsequently also forced to miss the remainder of the clay-court season, which included the Madrid Open, Italian Open and his French Open title defence \u2013 and the grass-court campaign comprising of the Queen\u2019s Club Championship and Wimbledon.<\/p>\n And there is no doubt that his absence was felt on the tour with two-time Roland Garros finalist Alex Corretja<\/a> saying: \u201cNot having Carlos on the courts is hell. We\u2019ve lost some of our magic, our essence.\u201d<\/p>\n There were high hopes he would make an appearance at the Canadian Open, which gets underway on 3 August, but his name was missing from the entry list, which raised concerns that he could miss the remainder of the 2026 season<\/a>.<\/p>\n Richard Krajicek reveals if Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s wrist injury worries him as he makes prediction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018I\u2019m glad Jannik Sinner won Wimbledon but men\u2019s tennis has a charisma problem without Carlos Alcaraz\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n But those fears have now been allayed as the Cincinnati Open organisers have revealed their player fields and Alcaraz\u2019s name is on the men\u2019s list.<\/p>\n In fact, renowned tennis coach Rick Macci<\/a> praised his decision to take the \u201clong road\u201d to recovery as the American stated: \u201cPlaying the long game with this injury was beyond smart.<\/p>\n \u201cOnce he returns and feels it and deals it in live action, his comeback will gain traction.\u201d<\/p>\n The Spaniard is the defending champion as he won the title last year when Jannik Sinner retired due to illness with the score 5-0 in Alcaraz\u2019s favour. He then went on to win a second US Open title also beating Sinner in the final.<\/p>\n Although organisers are confident that Alcaraz will play by confirming his name on the entry list, the 23-year-old is yet to officially reveal his return date as his team have vowed not to take any risks with his injury.<\/p>\n The Spaniard has dropped nearly 5,000 ranking points during his four-month enforced absence, resulting in a drop from No 2 to No 3 in the ATP Rankings<\/a> with Alexander Zverev moving ahead of him after Wimbledon.<\/p>\n It does mean he will be seeded third for his title defence and could potentially face Sinner in the semi-final and Zverev in the final.<\/p>\n The Cincinnati Open is likely to be his only event before the US Open with the season-ending Grand Slam \u2013 where he is also the defending champion \u2013 starting on 30 August at Flushing Meadows in New York.<\/p>\n The post Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s return date confirmed as his name appears on entry list<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Alcaraz is edging closer to making his long-awaited return to tennis as his name has finally appeared on the entry list for one of the upcoming events of the North American swing. The seven-time Grand Slam winner last played a match on the ATP Tour on 14 April when he won his opening match […]<\/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-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","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=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Carlos Alcaraz News<\/h2>\n