Alcaraz out of Wimbledon and Queen’s Club with wrist injury
Carlos Alcaraz pulled out of Wimbledon and Queen’s Club with a right wrist injury, leaving the grass season without its two-time champion and a marquee Sinner matchup.
Carlos Alcaraz’s withdrawal from Wimbledon reaches far beyond one tournament bracket. The world No. 2 and two-time champion pulled out on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, also skipping the Queen’s Club event, as a right wrist injury again interrupted a season that had made him the sport’s most bankable young star.
The injury traces back to the Barcelona Open in April, when Alcaraz sustained it during a first-round win over Otto Virtanen. It has already knocked him out of tournaments in Madrid and Rome, and then out of the French Open later this month, leaving the clay season without one of its main attractions. Alcaraz said his recovery is moving in the right direction and that he is trying to return as quickly as possible.
“With much sadness, I have to go home and begin my recovery as soon as possible with my team, the doctors, and the physio, and try to be as fit as possible. I hope you’ll see me back on a tennis court very soon.”
The absence is a major blow for Wimbledon, the All England Lawn Tennis Club and the wider men’s tour. Alcaraz had won at Wimbledon in 2023 and 2024, then reached the final again in 2025, building a recent grass-court record that made him the player most likely to anchor the tournament’s headline act. It also means he will miss the chance to defend the ranking points tied to last season’s grass run.
This would have been the third Grand Slam Alcaraz has missed since making his main-draw debut at the 2021 Australian Open. For a player with a 22-3 record this season, according to the ATP Tour, the injury has arrived at the moment tennis was leaning on him to help define its next era. His repeated collisions with injury have become part of a larger concern inside the men’s game: the post-Big Three future looks less stable when its brightest new rivalry cannot stay intact.
Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have been positioned as the rivalry to carry the tour forward, but Wimbledon now loses the possibility of another meeting between them on the sport’s biggest stage. The result is a thinner field, a weaker draw for London and another reminder that the men’s game is still searching for a durable new center.
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