Kyrgios charges against Alcaraz's tennis: “It's very boring”

Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios criticized Carlos Alcaraz, one of the strongest promises in Spanish tennis, and lor labeled “very boring.”

The Canberra tennis player responded on social networks to a video of the Murcian's defeat against the Finnish Emil Ruusuvuori in which many clashes between the two young men were predicted in the future.

“Jesus, if that happens it would be boring as hell,” Kyrgios said, who preferred not to compete this year at the Miami Masters 1,000.

Alcaraz, who sought to continue adding victories in 2021, fell in three sets against Ruusuvuori in a tournament that he had entered thanks to an invitation.

Alcaraz receives an invitation to the Godó

The Spanish Carlos Alcaraz is the first player invited by the organization of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell-Conde de Godó Trophy, which will be held from April 17 to 25 at the RCT Barcelona-1899 facilities.

Alcaraz, 17 years old and current number 132 in the ATP ranking, He will debut in the main draw of the tournament organized by his club, which wants to closely monitor his evolution.

Despite the emergence of the pandemic, Juan Carlos Ferrero's disciple completed a brilliant 2020 season in which he won two ITF $ 15,000 tournaments in a row and lifted three other ATP Challenger tournaments in Trieste, Barcelona and Alicante, all on clay. The Murcian tennis player, one of the strongest promises of Spanish tennis, intends to endorse his progression in 2021.

“Alcaraz is a player in a training period who has exceptional conditions that allow him to play against bigger rivals. Nobody knows how far he will go, but we are all convinced that it will be very far. And meanwhile, a tournament like ours cannot lose its evolution. Surely it does not clash in the big picture, “said David Ferrer, director of the tournament.

In 2019, at the age of 15, the Murcian tennis player made his first appearance at Godó, but fell in his first match of the qualifying phase. against the Portuguese Pedro Sousa.

After being suspended last year for the first time in its history due to COVID-19, the Barcelona Open returns in its 68th edition with eleven players among the 20 best in the world, a list that heads, as usual, the Spanish Rafael Nadal, who has already won this tournament eleven times.