The rain postpones the debut of Tsitsipas, top favorite

It was expected to rain in Barcelona and the meteorologists were right. After noon drops began to fall on the courts of the Real Club de Tenis de Barcelona, ​​putting the day at risk. By 1:45 p.m. the situation was already unsustainable: the intensity of the rain forced the matches to be stopped. At the moment a postponement, depending on how the weather evolves.

As long as time allowed, the Godó developed normally. In the round of 32 in which no Spaniards participated, three tennis players presented their candidacy to make things difficult for the favorites. Hungarian Marton Fucsovics got a comfortable 6-2 and 6-1 victory against Federico Delbonis, which confirms his good moment this week in Barcelona. It will be measured to a bone as Cameron Norriethat I sweat to beat the Belarusian on Tuesday Egor Gerasimov after three sets.

Also in the first final of the morning, the American Frances Tiafoe defeated Bolivian Hugo Dellien 7-6 and 6-1, while the Finn Emil Ruusuvuori also beat the Kazakh Alex Bublik 6-1 and 6-3. And, in another match played in three sets and marathon due to the rain, Australian Alex de Minaur beat Frenchman Ugo Humbert 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.

But after the Carlos Alcaraz match, the rain intensified and forced the day to be suspended until further notice, waiting for the weather to improve to play today or, instead, do it tomorrow. The Greek Stéfanos Tsitsipas had barely played a game against Ilya Ivashka. The Greek, who in the last edition reached the final and lost to Rafa Nadal, is the top favorite to retain the title. On court 1, the Argentine Federico Coria forced the third set with Grigor Dimitrov (6-4, 3-6 and 1-2).