Alcaraz reaches US Open third round after injury

According to ClickOnDetroit (relaying an AP dispatch), Carlos Alcaraz beat Portugal's Jaime Faria 4-6, 6-0, 6-3, 6-2 in the US Open second round in New York on 2 September 2026, booking his place in the third round. The same report notes that Alcaraz, the world number two and defending champion (he lifted the title in 2025), was playing only his second match since coming back from a right wrist injury, and that he had arrived on a 16-match Grand Slam winning streak. After sealing the win, he said he tried to stay focused and calm, adding that he was "thinking that good things are going to happen again".

Spanish outlets fill in why this comeback matters so much. El Español reports that Alcaraz hurt his right wrist on 14 April 2026 in Barcelona, during a match against Finland's Otto Virtanen, an injury that kept him off the courts for roughly four months (139 days without a singles match) and forced him to miss Roland-Garros, Wimbledon and the North American hard-court swing in Toronto and Cincinnati. A press aggregation drawing on Infobae and El Tiempo adds a detail that frames how smooth the return has been: in his first-round comeback match, Alcaraz brushed aside Russia's Roman Safiullin 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 on the Arthur Ashe court without dropping a set.

One voice no match report could supply comes from El Confidencial, which relayed comments made by former world number one and ex-US Open champion Andy Roddick on the Served Podcast. Roddick said he could not imagine a better comeback match than the one Alcaraz produced, admitting he had worried about the forehand speed but finding it higher than last year, and praising the Spaniard's movement and his ability to close out sets. Taken together, the AP account of the results and the Spanish commentary on his form point the same way: this is a top player looking sharp again, not merely surviving.

That is why Alcaraz is climbing the trends in Spain today, as Google Trends signals. The context sharpens the interest: the AP recap points out that last year, at the 2025 US Open, Alcaraz did not lose a single set before the final, which he won against Jannik Sinner, and that he also claimed the 2026 Australian Open, his seventh Grand Slam title. His next opponent in the third round had not been confirmed by a directly readable named article at the time of writing, so we are holding off on naming it here.

Sources : ClickOnDetroit (AP), El Español, agrégation presse (Infobae / El Tiempo), Served Podcast (Andy Roddick) via El Confidencial, Google Trends.