Carlos Alcaraz has confirmed he will withdraw from Wimbledon as he continues to recover from the wrist injury which has already ruled him out of next month's French Open.
"My recovery is going well and I'm feeling much better, but unfortunately I'm still not ready to compete, which is why I have to withdraw from the grass-court swing at Queen's and Wimbledon," Alcaraz posted on Instagram.
"They are two truly special tournaments for me and I will miss them a lot.
"We'll keep working to come back as soon as possible."
The world No 2 injured his wrist during his first-round victory over Otto Virtanen at the Barcelona Open on April 14.
Alcaraz was forced to withdraw from the next round as the injury proved more serious than first thought, and then had to pull out of the Italian Open (Masters 1000) and French Open (Grand Slam) - two tournaments he was the defending champion in.
The Spaniard will now miss Wimbledon too due to an inflammation of the tendon sheath of the wrist - tenosynovitis - which will halt his run of consecutive SW19 finals at three (2023 and 2024 champion, 2025 runner-up).
Alcaraz finished 2025 having regained the world No 1 ranking from rival Jannik Sinner, and then went on to win the first Grand Slam of the year at the Australian Open in January, adding the Melbourne title to his six previous Grand Slams won at the US Open (2022, 2025), Wimbledon (2023, 2024) and French Open (2024, 2025).
The 23-year-old fought from a set down to comprehensively beat Novak Djokovic in Melbourne, taking his tally of Grand Slam titles to seven already.
In doing so, Alcaraz became the youngest male player to complete a career Grand Slam, eclipsing Don Budge as the youngest to win all four - the American who wrapped up his at the 1938 French Open two days before his 23rd birthday. Alcaraz didn't turn 23 until May.
To put Alcaraz's achievements to this point into context, at the age of 22 Djokovic could count just a solitary Grand Slam title, winning the 2008 Australian Open at 21 but not another Grand Slam until 2011. Roger Federer only won three Grand Slams before the age of 23.
Alcaraz's fellow Spaniard Rafael Nadal, who emerged onto the tennis scene as a phenom, squeezed in six Grand Slam titles by the age of 23 - but four of them were at the same event at Roland Garros. In Australia, Alcaraz broke new ground with a seventh.
It took the Spaniard 12 major campaigns since his first Grand Slam triumph in New York in 2022 to complete the full haul, obliterating the previous Open Era record of 20 held by Nadal.
His current injury has robbed him of the chance to add further potential titles in Paris and London, however, with its timing particularly untimely.
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