World number one Carlos Alcaraz is suffering from a "
muscle tear
" in his abdominal muscles and must give up playing the end-of-season Masters and the Davis Cup finals, he announced on social media on Saturday.
Carlos Alcaraz had abandoned during his quarter-final at the Masters 1000 in Paris the day before.
The young Spaniard suffers from a "
tear of the internal oblique muscle of the left abdominal wall, with an estimated recovery period of six weeks
", he wrote on his Twitter account.
“
Unfortunately, I will not be able to play the Masters (November 13-20 in Turin) or the final phase of the Davis Cup (November 22-27 in Malaga).
His absence is estimated at six weeks.
The world number one was dropped by his body.
He had arrived in Paris with a knee, a little sore, he left with an abdominal injury.
The Spaniard threw in the towel in the second set tie-break.
After losing the first act 6-3, the Murcian pushed his opponent to the decisive game, before giving up at 3-1 against him in this tie-break.
“At the start of the second set, I felt something in my abdominals
, declared the winner of the US Open in a press conference.
.
And at the end of the set it wasn't working anymore.
At the start of the tie-break, it was indeed no longer possible, physically and mentally, which is why I preferred to stop.
I couldn't serve normally.
I couldn't hit forehand normally either.
I was always thinking about the pain.
It was better to stop than to play with such problems in my mind.
This injury could cost him the world number one spot.
