Carlos Alcaraz will defend his title this week ATP on the soil of Buenos Aires (Argentina). The Murcian tennis player, 20 years old and world No. 2, will debut against the winner of the match between the Peruvians Juan Pablo Varillas and the place Camilo Ugo Carabelli.
Carlos will be the big attraction in Buenos Aires just days after the announcement of the exhibition tournament ‘6 Kings Slam’ to be held next October at Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)where Alcaraz himself, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Daniel Medvedev, Jannik Sinner and Holger Rune They will fight for another millionaire’s purse.
The British newspaper The Telegraph, relying on a source from the event, mentioned that the participation fee is at least one and a half million dollars for each of the tennis players, approximately 1.4 million euros, and with the champion pocketing 6 million dollars. , about 5.5 million euros, a prize more than double the heel reserved for a champion of grand slam.
A few weeks ago it was also announced that Rafa Nadal is the new ambassador of Saudi Tennis Federationa movement that also brought criticism to the Balearic tennis player because year after year International Amnesty pointing to Arabia as a country where human rights violations and discrimination are part of its daily life.
There has been debate for many years about the extent to which different countries in the Persian Gulf, Arabia among them, use sport as a way to whitewash their dictatorial regimes, which have a lot of money, but lack many democratic standards. In this complex context, Alcaraz did not deny the questions to him about Arabia in his press conference in Buenos Aires.
“It is good for tennis that more places are opening. Arabia is a country that is developing rapidly in all senses, as a country and in the world of sports, where there are many events there, football, boxing, tennis. No I I know how far we can go, especially in tennis, but I think it’s good for the sport in general and I’m sure that every year it will evolve a lot,” said Alcaraz, who referred also Nadal’s role as the new ambassador. of the Saudi Tennis Federation.
“I heard people saying that they criticize him and so on, but in the end Rafa decided to sign as a tennis ambassador and, personally, I don’t think it’s bad. He signed as a tennis ambassador , if I understand correctly. Arabia is a developing country, opening up the world of sport and what better way for Rafa to get in there to expand the world of tennis to places where maybe it has not been played before. In the end, we play and try to attract more people so they can see more tennis and there is no better person than Rafa to expand it,” said the Murcian tennis player.
Source: La Verdad
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