Alcaraz began the five-tournament series of his intense American tour in Buenos Aires

Carlos Alcaraz will leave this Thursday for Argentina to participate in the ATP 250 tennis tournament in Buenos Aireswhich will take place from February 13 to 19 in the nation’s capital.

Alcaraz outlined the calendar at the beginning of the season and, after competing in that tournament, will participate in Rio de Janeiro, Acapulco, Indian Wells and Miami to return to Europe and continue competing on clay.

Alcaraz, 19 years old and currently number 2 in the world – he gave the first place to the Serbian Novak Djokovic in an Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the course, which the player from Murcia missed due to injury -, He has his bags almost ready to travel and start the first American tour of the year, which will take him to Brazil to play the ATP 500 in Rioa championship he won last year and where he will fight to defend the title from the 20th to the 26th of this month.

Later, another ATP 500 awaits him, Acapulcowhich will be held in Mexico City from February 27 to March 5.

Next comes the Masters 1,000 of Indian Wells and Miami, both in the United Statesthe first of them from March 8 to 19 and the second, which by the way also won in 2022, from March 22 to April 2.

The tennis player from El Palmar played his last match on November 4 in the quarterfinals of the Masters 1,000 in Paris-Bercy, the one he played against the Dane Holger Rune and where he left due to a tear in the oblique muscle of the left abdominal wall. Then, having recovered from that illness, he suffered a semimembranosus muscle injury in his right leg on January 6 in preparation for the Australian Open.

So, 95 days have passed without competing and, finally, Alcaraz sees the time to re-emerge at hand.

It will be in Buenos Aires, where he will start as the first seed if Djokovic does not appear and Among his rivals are the British Cameron Norrie, eleventh in the ATP ranking; and the Italian Lorenzo Musetti, eighteenth; Argentines Diego Schwartzman, twenty-eight, Francisco Cerúndolo, thirty-one, and Sebastián Baez, forty-seven; and several other Spaniards such as Albert Ramos, Pedro Martínez, Jaume Munar, Bernabé Zapata and Roberto Carballés, occupying positions 54, 65, 72, 76 and 77.

In the ranking, Alcaraz is the favorite, but the fact that he has not competed for more than three months is a clear handicap for him. In any case, after overcoming the physical problems that accompany him, he is preparing hard at the Equelite JC Ferrero Sport Academy in Villena, a town in Alicante where he has lived for several years and where, through by the way, he received a warm salute. before embarking on a journey through the lands of Argentina.

The man from Palma was honored at the Villena City Hall, along with his coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero. and signed the town’s Book of Honor in front of the mayor, Fulgencio José Cerdán, in his own town hall office. Other members of the City Council also did not miss the opportunity to be with Alcaraz and Ferrero.

“For the city of Villena for the good treatment from the beginning. For spending more years training and reaping titles at the Academy. With much love, Carlitos Alcaraz”, was his message.

Carlos also signed a large number of autographs and took pictures with many fans, many of them young tennis players from the municipal school.

The world number 2, who was also present at the Casa de la Cultura in Villena, spoke at one point during the act and showed the “great desire” he has to compete again and admitted to being “fully recovered and ready to start”.