Carlos Alcaraz out for rest of the season with muscle tear

Top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz will miss rest of season after sustaining an abdominal muscle tear while playing at Paris Masters.

Spanish teenr pulled out during a second-set tiebreaker against fellow 19-year-old Holger Rune in ir quarterfinal on Friday. Following medical exams, U.S. Open champion posted details of his injury on Saturday.

“Unfortunately this is result of my injury: an internal oblique muscle tear in left abdominal wall with an estimated recovery time of six weeks,” Alcaraz wrote on Twitter. “I won’t make ATP Finals or Davis Cup Finals. It is tough and painful for me to miss se two events, which are so important to me, but all I can do is be positive and focus on my recovery.”

ATP Finals are scheduled for v. 13-20 in Turin, Italy, with Davis Cup Finals taking place from v. 23-27 in Malaga, Spain.

Australian Open starts on Jan. 16.