Alcaraz has rivals in his match with Djokovic for No

The reappearance of Carlos Alcaraz After nearly four months out of the professional circuit, it was a marathon as he made a successful comeback. He returned as champion at the ATP 250 in Buenos Aires, he is now in the semifinals of the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro, with the idea of ​​revalidating the title on Brazilian clay.

Then he will leave this surface, he will go without interruption to the hard court of the tournament AAcapulco TP 500, in Mexico. He will lead the way in an event with the added bonus that the Murcian will have a mathematical option to regain the world number one that the Serb took from him. Novak Djokovic on January 30, after winning his tenth Australian Open, a Grand Slam the Spaniard missed due to a muscle injury in his right leg.

If Alcaraz wins the Rio tournament, he will tie 6,980 points with Novak Djokovic, who remains in first place thanks to his highest score that adds ATP Finals, Grand Slams and Masters 1000. This tie will be broken the distance, where the man from El Palmar competes in Acapulco and the Balkan does it in Dubai. The Spaniard needs to improve on the result of ‘Nole’ by one round.

This Saturday the paintings of Acapulco and Dubai were raffled. Carlos Alcaraz will start against the American mackenzie mcdonaldwhich will be measured in the round of 16 with the best clash between the American Brandon Nakashima and the german Daniel Altmayer.

The hypothetical rival of Juan Carlos Ferrero’s pupil in the quarterfinals is the American tommy paulhis executioner last summer in Montréal and recent Australian Open semifinalist.

Predictable passage to the semifinals against another North American, Taylor Fritz or Frances Tiafoewithout removing the Canadian Denis Shapovalov.

For the final, the option of a player who is also looking at the world number one in the medium term, the Norwegian Casper Ruudor his colleague in the Danish generation Holger Rune.

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The Greek fell Stefanos Tsitsipas. There is an invitation for Feliciano Lopez begin his farewell to tennis, facing the American Christopher Eubanks.

Novak Djokovic will open in Dubai with a tennis player from the previous stage. His most logical path would be to continue later in the Dutch Tallon Griekspoor or the French Constant Lestiennethe Polish Hubert Hurkacz (quarters), Russian Daniel Medvedevrecent champion of Rotterdam and Doha, in the semifinals and likely final against the Russian Andrei Rublev or the canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime.