Alcaraz and Djokovic avoided each other for more than a year until the semifinals of Roland Garros

Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic They have exchanged number one this season, in a distance duel because they did not coincide in the tournaments played. It’s not that they only played once, but it’s even more strange that this year they only appeared in the same box once before Roland Garros.

What seemed to be the first in a long series of confrontations continued to be the only precedent Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic see you this Friday in the Roland Garros semifinals. Looking for a place in the final against the German Alexander Zverev or the norwegian Casper Ruud.

Alcaraz defeated Djokovic in May 2022, in the semifinals of the Mutua Madrid Open, by 6-7 (5), 7-5 and 7-6 (5). In Paris came “the game that everyone has been waiting for since the draw. Me too”, acknowledges the Murcian.

“It’s true that we didn’t agree on the pictures, but here we are, what the majority wanted,” said the Serbian.

They did not measure the forces again because personal circumstances precluded this option. Carlos Alcaraz he missed the 2022 ATP Finals with an abdominal injury and was pulled out of Australia with a hamstring problem in his right leg. Djokovic took advantage to regain control in Melbourne and add his 22nd Grand Slam.

Then the Spanish chose America, while the Balkans chose Dubai. Crashing in Indian Wells or Miami is impossible because Djokovic He was then barred from entering the United States for not having been vaccinated against the coronavirus.

In the ground session, different interests. Alcaraz gave up Monte Carlo, went to Godó while Djokovic he went to Banja Luka, later resigned to Madrid.

Rome is the meeting point, but they will only meet in the final, but Alcaraz he immediately left when he ensured he regained the world number 1 by joining the Foro Italico.

Roland Garros hype awaited the final, put Djokovicnumber three, in the path of number one, leaving the lower sector more exposed, where number two, the Russian Daniel Medvedevgone on opening day.

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