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Males’s world No. 1 tennis participant Carlos Alcaraz will miss this month’s Australian Open attributable to a leg damage, the 19-year-old Spaniard mentioned on Friday.
In a tweet, Alcaraz mentioned he injured a muscle in his proper leg “by way of an opportunity, unnatural motion in coaching.”
“It’s robust, however I’ve to be optimistic, get well and look ahead. See you in 2024 @AustralianOpen,” he wrote.
The Australian Open would have been Alcaraz’s first grand slam since wining the 2022 US Open in September.
Final yr, Alcaraz gained 5 ATP titles and have become the youngest No. 1 in males’s tennis when he gained his first grand slam title in New York. He’s the youngest man since Rafael Nadal to enter the highest 10 and win an ATP 1000 title.
On the age of 19 years and 214 days, Alcaraz additionally grew to become the youngest year-end No. 1 within the historical past of males’s tennis, surpassing Lleyton Hewitt’s report set in 2001.
This isn’t the primary match Alcaraz has missed attributable to damage. He sat out the 2022 ATP Finals in Turin, Italy in November to get well from an stomach damage sustained on the Paris Masters earlier that month.
The Australian Open begins January 16 in Melbourne.
