MADRID, 3 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz will debut on Tuesday in the Rotterdam Tournament (Netherlands), of ATP 500 category that is played on a hard roof track and in which it is the number one head, with the Russian Daniil Medvedev as its main theoretician rival.
14 days after falling in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open against Serbian Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz returns to the ATP circuit in the Rotterdam tournament. The Murcia will seek in Dutch lands to get the first title of the season, in a tournament in which Máximo Favorit , with the first also winner of this event on covered track.
A tournament that will serve as a filming for Alcaraz for the 1,000 masters that will play in March in Indian Wells and Miami. In Róterdam, the Murcian can continue to improve his new service, as well as take competitive rhythm and ball speed in very fast conditions and, incidentally, redeem himself from the bad memory of the elimination in Melbourne, in an equalized match in which he returned to penalize him Do not take advantage of your opportunities to the rest.
Despite the absences of number 1 and 2 of the ATP ranking, Alcaraz will have first -level rivals on his way to the title. After the first round against a rival of bad memory such as the Dutch Botic Van de Zandschulp, his way would begin to harden with some round of 16 before the Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime, in rooms, presumably, before the Danish Holger Rune, semifinals in front of the Russian Andrey Rublev or players with level in ‘Indoor’ such as the Polish Hubert Hukacz or Czech Jiri Leheckka, while on the other side of the painting, in addition to Medvedev, second favorite, the Australian Alex de Miñaur and the Greek Stefanos Tsipas.
But to reach the final of Sunday Alcaraz must be overcoming Ronda, and the first will measure Van de Zandschulp, the player who put the end of Rafa Nadal’s race by beating him in the Davis Cup and who already knows what is to win the Murcian and in a level stage. In fact, he got it in his last confrontation, in the second round of the last US Open, a match in which the Dutch passed over Spanish and achieved the victory for a blunt 3-0. Of course, the only time they have measured in ‘Indoor’ conditions, in 2022 in Basel (Switzerland), the victory went to El Palmar.
“He is a very hard player, I have already played several times against him and the last time I lost now I will play against him at his home and probably the public is against me, but I will enjoy and give my best. I am here for the Challenge and to pass, “Alcaraz warned in statements collected by the ATP website.