{"id":46095,"date":"2026-04-20T03:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T07:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/carlos-alcaraz-and-novak-djokovic-miss-madrid-open-due-to-injury\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T03:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T07:20:14","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-and-novak-djokovic-miss-madrid-open-due-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/carlos-alcaraz-and-novak-djokovic-miss-madrid-open-due-to-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic miss Madrid Open due to injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz and No. 4 Novak Djokovic both missed the Madrid Open due to lingering injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Seven-time Grand Slam champion Alcaraz will also miss this week&#8217;s Barcelona Open and will miss the tournament in the Spanish capital with a wrist injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Madrid is home and one of the most special places in my calendar. That&#8217;s why it hurts so much not to be able to play here for the second year in a row,&#8221; Alcaraz wrote on social media. &#8220;This is a very special tournament for me and not being able to stand in front of my fans is especially painful. Thank you for your continued support and I look forward to seeing you again soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic has not played a match since the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. He missed the Miami Open and the Monte Carlo Masters due to a right shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Madrid, unfortunately I will not be competing in this year&#8217;s Madrid Open,&#8221; he wrote on his social media account on Friday. &#8220;I&#8217;m continuing my recovery so that I can come back soon. Hurry up!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic has won in Madrid three times.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press and PA contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz and No. 4 Novak Djokovic both missed the Madrid Open due to lingering injuries. Seven-time Grand Slam champion Alcaraz will also miss this week&#8217;s Barcelona Open and will miss the tournament in the Spanish capital with a wrist injury. &#8220;Madrid is home and one of the most special places in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[26,25,262,394,331,564,261,32,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-46095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alcaraz","9":"tag-carlos","10":"tag-djokovic","11":"tag-due","12":"tag-injury","13":"tag-madrid","14":"tag-novak","15":"tag-open","16":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}