Daniil Medvedev, who has not competed since the Masters 1,000 in Miami, when he fell in the quarterfinals against the Polish Hurkacz and could not recover the number one, will return to the track in Geneva. The Russian is the number one seed of the Swiss ATP 250, which starts this Sunday and in which he will debut directly in the second round on Tuesday against the Frenchman Gasquet or the Australian Millman. It will be his first event on clay, to prepare for Roland Garros, where he will arrive second in the ranking behind Novak Djokovic.
Medvedev decided to go under the knife to have a small herniated disc fixed and he hasn’t played for a month and a half. It was unclear if the entire clay campaign would be skipped. Finally, it will not be like that, even if it is the surface that it is worst given. However, last year she was a quarterfinalist in Paris.
Pablo Andújar and Albert Ramos are the Spanish representatives in Geneva. On Monday, the man from Cuenca will face the Portuguese Joao Sousa and the Catalan, a rival from the previous one. Casper Ruud is the second favorite in an event that also includes Reilly Opelka and Denis Shapovalov.
Carreño and Martínez, in Lyon
In the other ATP next week, the one in Lyon, Pablo Carreño and Pedro Martínez will participate. The gijonian, exempt from the first round as the second seed, will face the Argentine Coria or the German Altmaier in the second; while the Valencian will see them before with an opponent from the previous one. Cameron Norrie is number one on a list that also includes Gael Monfils and Álex de Miñaur. Charles Tabernerfirst seeded in the qualifiers, lost on Saturday against Japanese Watanuki (270th in the world) 6-3, 6-4).