{"id":21049,"date":"2024-02-20T22:48:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T03:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/carlos-alcaraz-injures-ankle-exits-rio-open-after-2-games\/20\/02\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-02-20T22:48:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T03:48:01","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-injures-ankle-exits-rio-open-after-2-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/carlos-alcaraz-injures-ankle-exits-rio-open-after-2-games\/20\/02\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz injures ankle, exits Rio Open after 2 games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>RIO DE JANEIRO &#8212; Two-time major winner <a data-player-guid=\"07843754-8bdf-63b0-5983-24252738169e\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> retired hurt from the Rio Open on Tuesday after two games due to a right ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>The retirement at 1-1 meant Brazil&#8217;s <a data-player-guid=\"1c504c97-892d-e1d0-5c5d-8e9045e412cb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Thiago Monteiro<\/a> advanced to the second round. He will face his compatriot <a data-player-guid=\"21554061-f27f-d115-846a-35275ac6b4ad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Felipe Meligeni Alves<\/a> for a place in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz twisted his ankle in the first game after only two points. He received medical attention, broke Monteiro&#8217;s serve, but after the Brazilian pulled level he shook his rival&#8217;s hand and left the court walking as his coach <a data-player-guid=\"457e45ec-5431-3086-fd8b-654f27196b4c\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Juan Carlos Ferrero<\/a> looked concerned.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish player said his doctors said the injury was not serious.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These things happen, even more so on clay,&#8221; Alcaraz said, &#8220;It was not a problem of the court, I got injured as I switched direction. That happens in this kind of surface.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Alcaraz said he does feel pain when he walks and that he will have medical scans on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I came back to the game to see whether I could carry on or not. I spoke to the physio on the court and we decided together I should continue to see if this would get better. It didn&#8217;t happen, so we chose to be careful and abandon due to precaution,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Monteiro said it was strange to go through after playing so little time against Alcaraz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the court it didn&#8217;t look so serious, but then I saw it in the big screen and it was a bad twist. Now I can only cheer for him to recover, he is a star, a dominant one in the new generation,&#8221; the Brazilian said.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz was the runner-up at the clay court tournament in Rio de Janeiro last year, and its winner in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The injury adds to Alcaraz&#8217;s below-par performances at the Argentina Open last week. The 20-year-old, who won the title in 2023, was eliminated by Chile&#8217;s <a data-player-guid=\"d12d1284-8746-6c26-b7e0-1119b676432c\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2377\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nicolas Jarry<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story?_slug_=carlos-alcaraz-upset-nicolas-jarry-argentina-open&amp;id=39548515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">semifinals in Buenos Aires<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, three-time major winner <a data-player-guid=\"c6eb21e5-8a25-0cb1-fc55-8315888ef262\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=264\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Stan Wawrinka<\/a> was beaten 7-5, 6-4 in the first round by Argentina&#8217;s <a data-player-guid=\"e5cfd849-0d01-339f-b3a3-8542c390f1ab\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=9993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facundo Diaz Acosta<\/a>. The 23-year-old D\u00edaz Acosta beat Jarry in the final to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/39554054\/facundo-diaz-acosta-wins-argentina-open-1st-atp-title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">win his first title on Sunday at the Argentina Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s match was delayed for almost two hours due to rain in Rio de Janeiro. Diaz Acosta&#8217;s next opponent will be his compatriot <a data-player-guid=\"4a7076f7-cfe4-643a-afe8-096a1194d408\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3340\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sebastian Baez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old Wawrinka won the 2014 Australian Open, 2015 French Open and 2016 US Open, where he defeated the world No. 1 player in the final on all three occasions.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00edaz Acosta played in Argentina as a wild-card entry with a career-high ranking of 87. He rose to No. 59 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had to have a lot of patience because of the rain,&#8221; D\u00edaz Acosta said. &#8220;Stan is a legend, it was amazing to play against him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/39565422\/carlos-alcaraz-injures-ankle-exits-rio-open-2-games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIO DE JANEIRO &mdash; Two-time major winner Carlos Alcaraz retired hurt from the Rio Open on Tuesday after two games due to<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/carlos-alcaraz-injures-ankle-exits-rio-open-after-2-games\/20\/02\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[973,5150,266,1119,315,5149,725,5116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21051,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21049\/revisions\/21051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}