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Carlos Alcaraz announces his withdrawal due to injury for the Australian Open

The world number one in men’s tennis, the Spanish Carlos Alcarazannounced this Friday his withdrawal from the Australian Open (January 16-29), the first Grand Slam of the season, due to a right leg injury that he has suffered during training.

«When I was in my best moment of the preseason, I injured myself in a fortuitous and forced gesture while training, this time in the semimembranosus muscle of my right leg. I had worked a lot to reach my best level in Australia », he wrote in a first message on Twitter.

“Unfortunately I will not be able to play the Care A2+ Kooyong or the Australian Open. It is a hard moment, but I have to be optimistic, recover and look ahead. See you in 2024 @AustralianOpen“Added the 19-year-old tennis player next.

Alcaraz became in 2022 in youngest player to reach number one in the world since the creation of the ATP ranking in 1973, after winning the US Open in September at the age of 19. A few months later he was also the youngest to finish the year at the top of the ranking.

And abdominal tear led him to leave in the quarterfinals of the Masters 1000 in Paris-Bercy in November, after which he had to put an end to his season, without being able to be in the Masters at the end of the season in Turin or in the final phase of the Davis cup.

His return in Melbourne was especially expected in the perspective of an eventual duel with Novak Djokovic, the best hard court player (nine titles at the Australian Open and three at the United States). The Serbian returns this 2023 to the first ‘big’ of the season, which last year he could not dispute due to his refusal to vaccinate against covid-19..

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