This Monday, Carlos Alcaraz seeks his place in the semifinals of the Beijing tournament against Casper Ruud (1:00 pm). the first of an Asian tour where he hopes to shave a lot of points off the absent Novak Djokovic.
The next stop is, starting Friday for him, the Shanghai Masters 1000i, that the draw just came out good news for the world number 2.
And that’s it, After the bad luck he had in the Toronto, Cincinnati, US Open and Beijing draws, this time fortune smiled on him.. He will make his debut, already in the second round, against the winner of the duel between Nuno Borges and Gregoire Barrere, with Daniel Evans as a possible opponent in the third round.
In the round of 16, Grigor Dimitrov or Karen Khachanov will appear in their way, while Taylor Fritz or Frances Tiafoe (both appearing in Shanghai after the Laver Cup) have emerged as the most likely opponents in the quarterfinals.
If we say Alcaraz is lucky, it is because of the hypothetical semifinal match, where avoid players of the caliber of Jannik Sinner, Alexander Zverev, Holger Rune or Casper Ruud.
His hypothetical rival will emerge from the rivalry that will face two of the players with the worst streaks today in the quarterfinals: Stefanos Tsitsipas and Andrey Rublev.
So that, Daniil Medvedev had to face the toughest half of the drawwith Zverev, Sinner or Shelton as rivals in the quarterfinals or Ruud and Rune in the semifinals.
The Shanghai Masters 1000, penultimate of the season, begins this Wednesday with the first round of matches, while The 32 seeds will enter the competition between Friday and Saturday. The final will be played on Sunday, October 15.
Source: La Verdad
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