MADRID 17 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz starts as the rival to beat in the Doha Tournament, ATP 500 that is played on the outdoor track and that plays for the first time in his career in search of continuing with the good feelings offered in Rotterdam (countries Low) and with a possible reunion with Serbian Novak Djokovic.
The Murcian is the number one standard in the event will chat will after the sudden low of the Italian Jannik Sinner, after agreeing his three -month sanction with the World Anti -Doping Agency (AMA) for his positive controversial of almost a year ago. A condition that will try to assert to add a second title weeks after premiering its 2025 palm tree on the hard track of Rotterdam against the Australian Alex de Miñaur.
That of El Palmar will debut this Monday before a tanned veteran in a thousand battles such as Croatian Marin Cilic, ‘Extep 10’ of the ATP and champion of the 2014 United States Open, the first obstacle in a picture where the morbidity of a Possible reunion with Serbian Novak Djokovic, his executioner in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open.
The 24 ‘Grand Slass’ champion returns precisely in Doha, where he has won twice (2016 and 2017), after retiring in the semifinals of the first ‘large’ of the season due to the injury that occurred precisely in the duel against the Juan Carlos Ferrero’s pupil.
This duel would only occur in semifinal hypothetical, although ‘Nole’, which starts as the third head of the series, has a hard debut against the Italian Matteo Berrettini, while the Murcian could have the Czech Jiri Lehecka or the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov . The Australian Alex de Miñaur, second favorite, the Russian Daniil Medvedev, who is not at his best, or the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, sixth favorite, are other names to follow in a tournament with Roberto Bautista as the other representative of the ‘Navy’.