Carlos Alcaraz, world number 2will play in his second match (3rd round) of Madrid Masters 1,000 opening night session this Sunday, against Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, which he only faced once. Alcaraz will play before 8:00 pm
This is the second time that the tennis player from El Palmar, champion this year in Godó, Indian Wells and Buenos Aires, will face the 31-year-old Bulgarian player and who, although in his time, in 2020 has been third racket. of the world, is now installed in the 32nd position of the ATP.
Dimitrov hasn’t won a trophy in six years. He has since finished his best season, in 2017 with victories at the ATP Finals and Cincinnati Masters 1,000 adding Sofia and Brisbane in the same year. Eight titles illuminate the history of the Bulgarian, who is in Madrid for the eleventh time. Now he reunites with Alcaraz, whom he defeated at the Masters 1,000 in Paris last year by a resounding 6-1 and 6-3.
The Murcian jumps on the Manolo Santana track after what Roberto Bautista Russian Karen Khachanov will meet in the opener and American Jessica Pegula will face Czech Marie Bouzkova. Closing the morning session is the match between the number one in women’s tennis, the Polish Iga Swiatek, with the American Bernarda Pera.
Then Alcaraz and then Alejandro Davidovich will test another sensation of the new generation, the Danish Holger Rune.
Source: La Verdad
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