Alcaraz will enter the round of 16 at the US Open with a bandage on his left thigh

Carlos Alcaraz entered Arthur Ashe Stadium wearing a bandage on his left thigh. Play in the round of 16 against the Italian Matteo Arnaldiunprecedented match on the professional circuit.

The current US Open champion and world number one has been training with his left thigh, although he has been working out without any apparent problems.

Alcaraz announced that, after a match of more than three hours against Dan Evans, that you need to take care of yourself physically. “Games of this style are long, and there are some discomforts to control, but I finished with a good feeling,” he said on Saturday.

On Sunday he did not go to the club, preferring to recover at the hotel with his team and go on a tour. Dosing forces, as he did later in tournaments, especially when he didn’t have a Grand Slam match.

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At Wimbledon he also showed up with a preventive bandage, and won the tournament without complications despite discomfort in the adductor in his right leg. He is facing his 58th individual in a campaign that started in February, as he injured himself in January, missing the Australian Open.

Alcaraz is favorite against Arnaldi, a 22-year-old rookie and world number 61. In the rooms I will cross with the German Alexander Zverev or the italian Jannik Sinner.

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