Carlos Alcaraz won't get the chance to chase another Wimbledon title this summer.
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The two-time Wimbledon champion announced that he is withdrawing from both Wimbledon and the Queen's Club warmup event in London as he continues recovering from a lingering wrist injury.
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Alcaraz injured his right wrist during the Barcelona Open last month, and while he says progress has been encouraging, the timing simply didn't work out for a return.
"My recovery is going well and I'm feeling much better," Alcaraz wrote on social media. "But unfortunately I'm still not ready to compete."
It's another tough blow for one of tennis' biggest stars, especially considering how dominant he has been on the sport's biggest stages lately.
The 22-year-old already missed the French Open, a tournament he won each of the past two years. Now he'll also sit out Wimbledon, where he captured back-to-back titles in 2023 and 2024 by defeating Novak Djokovic in both finals.
Last year, though, things changed a bit.
Alcaraz fell to Jannik Sinner in the Wimbledon final, adding another chapter to what many believe is becoming the sport's defining rivalry for the next decade.
Even with the injury setback, Alcaraz still opened 2026 with a major milestone, winning the Australian Open and becoming the youngest men's player ever to complete a career Grand Slam.
So while this summer won't include another Wimbledon run, nobody around tennis seems overly concerned about the bigger picture.
"We'll keep working to come back as soon as possible," Alcaraz wrote.
And if recent history says anything, it's that when he's healthy, he usually comes back in a big way.
