 Welcome back to Tennis Talk, my name's Cam Williams and Carlos Alcárez has called it time on his season. After an injury forced him out of the Paris Masters this week, it's also forced him out of tournaments coming up at the AGP Finals and at the Davis Cup. Let's go have a read of his statement over on Twitter only a few hours ago. This is what Alcárez had to say after my withdrawal yesterday and having been evaluated by my medical team. Unfortunately, this is the result of my injury, an internal oblique muscle tear in the left abdomen wall. With an estimated recovery time of six weeks. Unfortunately, I won't make the ATB Finals or the Davis Cup Finals. It is tough and painful for me to miss these two events, which is so important to me, but all I can do is to be positive and focus on my recovery. Thank you for the support. So Alcárez is out of the Davis Cup Finals, but the ATB Finals, he was the number one in the world or he is the number one in the world. He was the top seed of that event. And of course, yesterday, if you didn't see yesterday, he pulled out in the second set tiebreak against Holgaruna in what was going to be a very close match in the end, but he pulled out. He had, I think, a tear just before the tiebreak had started. He had a medical time out before that. And then, of course, pulled out mid-match. And a lot of people gave him a little bit of stick for pulling out, maybe, you know, withdrawing or giving up or quitting. But now we can see it's much more serious than that. And he's out for the rest of the season. And he's not playing there to be finals. And that's such a shame that we don't get to see him play against Djokovic, play against Nadal, potentially in the group stages or in the semifinals. And that means that Taylor Fritz will take his spot, because Fritz was the first alternate. He now gets bumped up. We'll talk about that in the ranking show next week a lot more. But what do you reckon? You reckon Alcárez will be okay for the start of next year? Remember, the season is only going to be paused for, like, maybe eight weeks at the most. The United Cup starts at the end of December. So we don't have much of an offseason, six-week recovery. You think it'll be good for Australia and good for the Australian Open. But Carlos Alcárez out for the rest of the year. No ATP finals for Alcárez.