Carlos Alcaraz will have again at the US Open, on Tuesday against the Argentine Sebastián Báez, a debut of the most demanded in his professional career in Grand Slam tournaments, which he faces to “be happy to achieve a good result” in his second presence in New York.
This is what Alcaraz said, who at 19 years old he is the fourth player in the ATP ranking and third seeded at the US Open behind Daniil Medvedev and Rafa Nadal and due to the absence of Alexander Zverev’s injury.
In El Palmar the draw gave him a pairing with Báez, 21 years old and thirty-seven players in the world, initially.
It’s another tough start scheduled for Tuesday at six o’clock in the afternoon -Spanish time- opening day at Flushing Meadows.
The one from San Martín faced an opportunity and defeated him 4-2, 4-1, 4-2 in the Next Gen ATP Finalsa championship won by Carlos in November 2021 in the city of Milan in Italy.
Last year, in his first time at the fourth and final Grand Slam of the season, the student of Juan Carlos Ferrero started playing against the British Cameron Norriewho is number 29 in the world -now in ninth place- and Alcaraz, who is number 55 in the international ranking, won 6-4, 6-4 and 6-3 in a tournament where, in just 18 years.
In fact, he reached the quarterfinals and sprung a big surprise in the third round, defeating the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas.who was then the third player in the world – currently he is fifth.
For Alcaraz, this is the eighth participation in the final table of a Grand Slam tournament in the two years he played them and he always passed the first round.
Besides Norrie and Báez at the US Open, the highest-ranked opponent the Spaniard has faced in the first round of a “major” is the Japanese Yasutaka Uchiyama at Wimbledon 2021. The Japanese is 116 and Alcaraz beat him 6 – 3, 6-7 (4), 6-2, 3-6 and 6-3.
The Murcian, that is there are options to become number 1 in the ATP in New Yorkis focused on achieving good feelings because he knows that this way he will have a better chance of going far.
“I don’t want to think about the pressure and my goal is to enjoy myself. I think if I do that, I will have good results“, He indicated in the statements released by the ATP.
“I feel stronger than in 2021. This season I made it to the quarterfinals at Roland Garros, I played long and tough matches against the best players and I think I’m more prepared for this tournament than last year,” he said.
Also He wants a hypothetical duel in the semifinals with Nadal, which would be “amazing”as he recognized, “but there are great games ahead”, he added.
Source: La Verdad
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