{"id":45536,"date":"2026-08-07T03:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/carlos-alcaraz-how-damaging-is-wrist-injury-and-are-they-becoming-more-common\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T03:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:56:23","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-how-damaging-is-wrist-injury-and-are-they-becoming-more-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/carlos-alcaraz-how-damaging-is-wrist-injury-and-are-they-becoming-more-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz: How damaging is wrist injury and are they becoming more common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alcaraz won his last match against a qualifier in the opening round of the Barcelona Open, but was in visible discomfort and withdrew before his next match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Photographs and videos on his social media channels show him in a training session in Murcia on Tuesday, sporting the longer hair he has grown out during his absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A competitive return is still a few weeks off at least, however, meaning he will at best be carrying almost five months&#8217; worth of rust into the US Open if he plays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But with wrist injuries in tennis, waiting longer can help prevent the problem recurring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The biggest risk of injury is a previous injury &#8211; if you have had it once, you are more likely to have it in the future,&#8221; Ross adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If a player can get back over a period of a few months and they don&#8217;t have a reoccurrence, generally they will be OK. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But some things can become chronic and the pressure of the sport to come back, earn money by playing, and keep your ranking points, is a risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the key challenges of a wrist injury is psychological &#8211; once a player has suffered a painful injury in the joint that controls so much of their technique, it can be difficult to fully trust it again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Wrists aren&#8217;t easy&#8221;, said Sir Andy Murray, having suffered injuries in both wrists in his early 20s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When the ball is low you know you really have to use your wrist to get the ball up and down, or when the ball is coming fast and quite high you need to use your wrist a lot to bring the ball down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s difficult when you try to come back [from a wrist injury], because the pain that you feel when you initially hurt it, mentally it&#8217;s very difficult to let go of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cq56qz4xx1yo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcaraz won his last match against a qualifier in the opening round of the Barcelona Open, but was in visible discomfort and withdrew before his next match. Photographs and videos on his social media channels show him in a training session in Murcia on Tuesday, sporting the longer hair he has grown out during his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45538,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45536\/revisions\/45538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}