Carlos Alcarazleader of the ATP classification, will defend his number one in four ATP tournaments who will argue between now and the end of the year, Astana, Basel, Paris-Bercy and the Masters Cupwhere you can add up to 3,140 points to 6,740 accumulated after his victory at the US Open.
Alcaraz reached the final stage of the course with the advantage of only needing to defend the 180 points he won last year at the Masters 1,000 in Paris-Bercy and knew he could only lose to the 180 he won at the ATP 500 in Vienna, where he was not will attend this year.
“I see myself ending the year as number 1”Said the 19-year-old young tennis player from Murcia who is the youngest player to reach the top of world tennis.
The comment made by the man from El Palmar is full of arguments because of the situation of the current classification, the good moment that he is in and because he can only lose 360 points and is in a position to reach 9,880.
In 2021, the last tournaments in which Alcaraz participated were Vienna, in Austria, where he reached the semifinals, and Paris-Bercy, in France, where he reached the quarterfinals.
This year he has four scoring tournaments left to play before his final appearance in 2022, which will take place, if there are no setbacks, at the final stage of the Davis Cup scheduled for November 23-27 in Malaga , but there is no point in the bet, although the great prestige of raising the Salad Bowl is.
the student of John Charles Ferrero He was absent last year from the ATP 500 in Astana and Basel, where he will participate today; will repeat at Paris-Bercy and later debut at the ATP Finals, the Masters Cup, where he has been classified for almost three weeks and where he seeks to be crowned after playing in 2021 at the Next Gen ATP Finals, which is the Cup of Teachers for the youth.
Both in Kazakhstan, from October 3 to 9; as in Switzerland, from the 24th to the 30th of that month, he will have the opportunity to add up to 500 points in each tournament, while in the French capital, from October 31 to November 6, he will defend his 180 points won. by overcoming two rounds in the last edition – he eliminated the Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert 6-7 (4), 7-6 (2) and 7-5 and the Italian Jannik Sinner 7-6 (1) and 7- 5 – until he fell against local Hugo Gaston 6-4 and 7-5. If he wins the title, Alcaraz will emerge with +820 points for the ATP ranking.
Stops adding 180 to Viennaa tournament that coincides with the dates in Basel and that is in the same category.
Later, in Turin, where the tournament between the eight best rackets of the season will be played from November 13 to 20, the winner will add 1,500 points if he wins without losing.
There, each victory in the group stage gives 200 points -all participating tennis players will play three games-, victory in the semifinals another 400 and victory in the final another 500.
This is how Carlos looks, who currently, after his brilliant victory in New York, has accumulated 6,740 points and is ahead of Norwegian Casper Ruud by 890, Rafa Nadal of Mallorca by 930 and Daniil Medvedev of Russia by 1,675. Therefore, only Ruud and Nadal seem to be in a position to dethrone the privileged position he now occupies.
The one from Oslo was in the 2021 finals, where he reached the semifinals -there he lost 6-4 and 6-2 against Medvedev after winning two of his three matches in the first round, against the British Cameron Norrie -1 – 6, 6-3 and 6-4- and Russian Andrey Rublev -2-6, 7-5 and 7-6 (5)- and fell to Serbian Novak Djokovic 7-6 (4) and 6-2.
In addition, the Nordic reached the quarterfinals in both Paris-Bercy and Vienna.
Meanwhile, the man from Manacor did not compete due to injury in the last quarter of 2021 -he bid farewell to the ATP 500 in Washington in August- and therefore does not defend points and in that sense he is in an advantageous situation , although quite Far from an Alcaraz He has reason to think that the number 1 will not escape him in this dream 2022 for him and where he has won more games than any other player in the circuit: 52 wins in 62 games.
Source: La Verdad
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