Carlos Alcarazwho will not play in the ATP 500 tournament in Basel due to discomfort, He played 21 more ATP matches than Novak Djokovicworld number 1 with 2,240 points ahead of the young tennis player from Murcia, who is number 2.
Despite injuries – he had already started the year without going to the Australian Open due to an ailment in the semimembranosus muscle of his right leg -, Alcaraz has amassed 72 matches on the circuit compared to the Serbian’s 51.
He spanishsuffering from physical problems with the plantar fascia of the left foot and also muscle fatigue in the lower back, announced that he will not compete in Baselwhere last year they reached the semifinals and, therefore, they would have defended the 180 points they would have lost for the international classification.
The one from El Palmar, 20 years old, vHe needs to be the eighth finalist at the Shanghai Masters 1,000 and a semi-finalist at the ATP 500 in Beijing on the Asian tour and needs “treatment to play the rest of the season,” as he noted on his X social network account.
It was another stoppage in his progress during a season in which he played 72 ATP matches, two more than he played in 2022. The pupil of Juan Carlos Ferrero has accumulated 63 victories and 9 defeats in 15 contests on the circuit.
There are 21 more ATP matches than Djokovic has played since January, who won 46 of the 51 he faced in the 10 tournaments in which Belgrade participated, who at 36 years old saves himself for the big events of the season and that approach gives him good results. To no avail, he won three of the four Grand Slam tournaments – Australia, Roland Garros and the United States – and lost Wimbledon in the final after a five-set decider against Alcaraz.
The Russian Daniel Medvedevthird in ranking, He is the tennis player with the most matches played this year74 in total, of which he won 60 and lost 14 in 19 contests.
Compared to last year, Alcaraz, who currently did not play any Davis Cup matches although he played two Hopman Cup singles matches, which he won, surpassed 70 ATP matches in 2022 in 17 tournaments. They will be the ones to finish this year if, as planned, attend the Paris-Bercy Masters 1,000which will be held from October 30 to November 5, and at Masters Cup, which will take place in the Italian city of Turin from the 12th to the 19th of next month.
Everything indicates that The reunion between the Spaniard and Djokovic could take place in Paristhe best possible prelude to the Nitto ATP Finals, and will certainly have Medvedev as well, the third in contention
Source: La Verdad
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