Wimbledon 2026 Withdrawal List: Carlos Alcaraz, Valentin Vacherot Among Five Already Out as Draper, Musetti and Rune Fitness Doubts Grow

The 139th edition of the Wimbledon Championships runs from 29 June to 12 July 2026, but the tournament’s entry lists are already being reshaped by a growing injury crisis across both the ATP and WTA tours.

Carlos Alcaraz, the two-time Wimbledon champion currently ranked world No. 2, has been sidelined since sustaining a right wrist injury during his first-round victory at the Barcelona Open on 14 April. The 23-year-old Spaniard subsequently missed the Madrid Open, the Rome Masters and Roland Garros before formally ruling himself out of the entire grass-court swing — a decision that eliminates him from both the Queen’s Club Championships and Wimbledon.

“My recovery is going well, and I feel much better, but unfortunately, I’m still not ready to be able to play, and that’s why I have to withdraw from the grass-court swing at Queen’s and Wimbledon,” Alcaraz said. “They are two really special tournaments for me, and I’ll miss them a lot. We keep working to return as soon as possible!”

Alcaraz’s absence is a significant blow to the tournament, given he has twice claimed the Wimbledon title and has been one of the most prominent figures on the grass-court circuit in recent years. His place in the draw has been taken by Jan Choinski.

World No. 20 Valentin Vacherot has also formally withdrawn from the men’s singles event, with Sho Shimabukuro stepping in as his replacement. The 27-year-old Monegasque, who pulled out of Roland Garros before his second-round match, has since disclosed the nature of his injury. “Officially, it’s a stress fracture with significant bone edema,” Vacherot said on an episode of Prime à Roland-Garros. “I started feeling it at the end of Madrid, which is why I didn’t play Rome and Hamburg before Roland [Garros] to try to take as much time as possible to heal. Grass is dead, Wimbledon is dead. If I’m back on the match courts in a month and a half, I’ll take it as a reset to arrive fresh for this second part of the season.”

Beyond the confirmed withdrawals, the fitness of several other top players remains uncertain with under three weeks until the tournament begins. Lorenzo Musetti, who missed Roland Garros due to a thigh injury, and British No. 1 Jack Draper, who has not played since a knee injury sustained at the Barcelona Open in April, have both withdrawn from the Queen’s Club Championships. Holger Rune has been absent from competition since October with an Achilles injury and has similarly ruled himself out of Queen’s. Arthur Fils, meanwhile, has not featured since suffering a hip injury at the Italian Open and has pulled out of the Halle Open.

Defending champions Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek, both of whom claimed their maiden Wimbledon titles in 2025, are expected to compete.

On the women’s side, three players have already been removed from the entry list. World No. 30 Hailey Baptiste, world No. 71 Varvara Gracheva and world No. 72 Sonay Kartal have all withdrawn through injury, replaced by Hanne Vandewinkel, Sinja Kraus and Paula Badosa respectively.

Further concern surrounds Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko, who retired during her opening-round singles match at Queen’s Club on Tuesday after suffering a left knee injury. Her participation in the grass-court Grand Slam is now in doubt. Marketa Vondrousova, the 2023 Wimbledon champion, remains on the entry list but has not competed since the Australian Open earlier this year, leaving her inclusion as a question mark.