The Spaniard returns to the pitch after his wrist injury: he played his last match on 14 April in Barcelona and at Flushing Meadows he is looking for his third success after those in 2022 and 2025
New York will celebrate the return to the field of Carlos Alcarazabsent from great tennis since last April 14th when in Barcelona he revealed to everyone that he had to stop due to a wrist problem. Spanish he has already won twice at the US Open and the absence of Jannik Sinner inevitably gives him the label of favorite, even if doubts remain about a return after such a long injury. The lack of rhythm, combined with the value of the opponents who will be very fearsome from the first rounds and the humidity of this period in the Big Apple, are the doubts that accompany the Spaniard’s return. But Flushing Meadows is a special place for Carlos, it was the US Open that revealed him to the world in 2021 and the following year he triumphed as the youngest player in the history of the tournament with three matches won in the fifth set from the round of 16 to the semi-finals and a match ball canceled out in Sinner. That day was probably the birth of the dualism that is exciting tennis fans and which we won’t be able to see this year due to Jannik’s injury. Alcaraz also won last year in New York, against Sinner and did everything he could to get back on this occasion, deciding to also play the mixed doubles together with Serena Williams.
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Alcaraz together with his team, he opted for conservative therapy rather than an intervention, therefore keeping the limb at rest but still finding ways to avoid losing the feeling with the tool. He trained first with his left hand, then with a racket without strings and only as the months went by did he gradually increase the intensityup to training at a high pace with Holger Rune in the week before leaving for New York. Since April, the imperative was not to speed up recovery times and not to take risks. This inevitably led to a series of painful forfeits: from the Masters 1000 in Madrid and Rome to two Slams such as Roland-Garros and Wimbledon as well as the other two 1000s in Montreal and Cincinnati. Then there is the psychological aspect, it is not easy to go back to using a part of the body that you have had pain in for months and the wrist is stressed with every shot, especially in the return of the serve which at the highest levels reaches over two hundred per hour.
