Spain will be without U.S. Open champion Carlos Alcaraz at the David Cup, with the youngster withdrawing due to fatigue, the tournament announced on Monday.
Alcaraz and Alejandro Davidovich-Fokina — the two players to have withdrawn from the team — will be replaced by Jaume Munar, Roberto Carballés, and Pablo Carreno.
Spain will be without U.S. Open champion Carlos Alcaraz at the David Cup, with the youngster withdrawing due to fatigue, the tournament announced on Monday.
Alcaraz and Alejandro Davidovich-Fokina — the two players to have withdrawn from the team — will be replaced by Jaume Munar, Roberto Carballés, and Pablo Carreno.
Carlos Alcaraz ended the reign of Jannik Sinner with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 win to claim the U.S. Open title on Sunday and tighten his grip on the era-defining rivalry between the torch-bearers of the men’s game.
In a perfect echo of the triumph that first propelled him to the number one spot in 2022, Alcaraz’s second New York title lifted him back to the top of the world rankings as the 22-year-old Spaniard displaced Sinner and took his Grand Slam trophy haul to six.
“The performance today was perfect,” said Alcaraz’s coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero.
“The potential to win many titles, many Grand Slams, is there, but we take nothing for granted. Nothing is automatic; you have to make it happen,” said Ferrero.
“I don’t think too far ahead. I can’t stop thinking about whether Carlos is going to win 20 Grand Slams; you have to take each day as it comes.
“He’s 22 years old; we can’t think he’s perfect, far from it. He has a lot of things to improve on.”
(With inputs from Reuters and AFP)
Published on Sep 08, 2025
