Carlos Alcaraz will play again on the tennis court eleven days after officially closing the 2023 season losing to the Serbian Novak Djokovic in the semifinals of the ATP Finals in Turin.
The Spaniard, 20 years old and world No. 2, took a short vacation before beginning preseason work leading up to the Australian Openwhere its official reappearance will take place, from January 14 to 28.
Before that he would only play exhibition matches. The first, this Wednesday, in a particular setting though well-known in the tennis world, as overhead images of a bullring turned tennis court spread like wildfire.
The swiss Roger Federer and the german Alexander Zverev In 2019, 42,517 people gathered at the Monumental Bullring in Mexico City.
More than 30,000 people witnessed the meeting between the Spaniards in 2022 Rafael Nadal and the norwegian Casper Ruud.
This November event returns on Wednesday with the Carlos Alcaraz of the maximum opponent. As a rival, one of the fiercest on the circuit, the American Tommy Paulwith whom he is 2-2 on the ATP record.
Previously, from 7:00 pm local time, a rivalry between the Danish Caroline Wozniacki and the Greek Maria Sakkari.
The Colombian singer will close the show Sebastian Yatra, with a concert to be welcomed by Alcaraz, one of his biggest fans. So much so that he even hummed a chorus during the US Open.
Alcaraz has a pending appointment with Novak Djokovicin Saudi Arabia on December 27. And there is still no date for another meeting he will have in his native Murcia.
Source: La Verdad
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