Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s injury recovery is progressing but his training is at a \u2018very low intensity\u2019, according to reports in his native Spain.<\/p>\n
The seven-time major winner began the year in unstoppable form. He completed the career Grand Slam at the tender age of 22 after winning the Australian Open, before romping to the Qatar Open title in irresistible fashion.<\/p>\n
But after failing to win any of the year\u2019s first three Masters (Indian Wells, Miami, and Monte Carlo), his season was turned upside down when a wrist injury forced him to pull out of the Barcelona Open in mid-April.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old missed the French Open and Wimbledon, prompting fears he could be out for the rest of 2026. Indeed, training footage of him playing with an unstrung, broken racket, while still wearing a wrist brace, led former British No 1 Greg Rusedski to say he was \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n On the flip side, Serena Williams\u2019 old coach, Rick Macci, stated Alcaraz\u2019s wrist is at 100%<\/a>, has played \u201cmany matches with other pros\u201d and has turned this negative into a positive.<\/span><\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz \u2018not going to rush\u2019 comeback from \u2018complicated\u2019 injury<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018I\u2019m in love with Carlos Alcaraz,\u2019 says former world No 1<\/a><\/strong><\/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 However, according to Clay Tenis<\/a>, this is not the case.<\/p>\n In an article titled \u2018Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>\u2018s strangest and freest summer\u2019, writer Nacho Encabo outlines the contrast between the lows of being out injured and the highs of being inside MetLife Stadium to watch his beloved Spain beat Argentina 1-0 and win the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n The piece says Alcaraz has played no sets, no matches, \u2018nothing of the sort\u2019. His recovery is \u2018on track\u2019 but the Spaniard is not going to rush and risk jeopardising the rest of the season.<\/p>\n Alcaraz is scheduled to return at the Cincinnati Masters, which runs from 13-23 August, but question marks remain over his participation.<\/p>\n Clay claim that the defending US Open<\/a> champion has not been able to hit a ball with complete freedom, not even in the privacy of a training session, since getting injured.<\/p>\n Sources close to Alcaraz allegedly say,\u00a0\u201cCarlos is training, but still at a very low intensity.\u201d<\/p>\n And while Alcaraz\u2019s image is being used to promote Cincinnati, Clay add that does not mean the former world No 1 will play it at 100% but he does intend to head to Ohio and compete.<\/p>\n Tennis fans will be watching the player\u2019s social media pages like hawks as he steps up his recovery. While there are rival factions in the sport, the vast majority of tennis followers want to see Alcaraz fit and ready for the US Open.<\/p>\n But that is far from certain.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Carlos Alcaraz set to miss the US Open? Rumours are swirling<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Carlos Alcaraz injury concern grows as he\u2019s still training at \u2018very low intensity\u2019 ahead of US Open<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s injury recovery is progressing but his training is at a \u2018very low intensity\u2019, according to reports in his native Spain. The seven-time major winner began the year in unstoppable form. He completed the career Grand Slam at the tender age of 22 after winning the Australian Open, before romping to the Qatar Open […]<\/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-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517","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=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More Carlos Alcaraz News<\/h2>\n