Carlos Alcaraz seeks these days in American soil to achieve the double known as the ‘Sunshine Double’win consecutive Indian Wells and Miami.
Only seven male tennis players in history have achieved this. Jim Courier (1991), Michael Chang (1992), Pete Sampras (1994)the Chilean Marcelo Ríos (1998) and Andre Agassi (2001) achieved it once, but Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic signed the ‘Sunshine Double’ several times: three in the case of the Swiss (2005, 2016 and 2017) and four are Serbian (2011, 2014, 2015, 2016).
Semifinalist last year, The Murcian will make his debut against another Spaniard, Roberto Carballéswho this Thursday defeated Australian Aleksandar Vukic (n.65) 7-6(2) and 6-3 in the first round after a very close match in which there was only one break in total.
The Spaniard won the first set in a tiebreaker 7-2 in an hour and made a good break in the fourth game of the second to advance to the round.
Carballés, 30 years old, reached the same round in Indian Wells, when he faced another fierce rival, Russian Daniil Medvedev.
The game will be held on Saturdayin the first shift of the afternoon session, ie not before 00:00 Spanish peninsular time.
Source: La Verdad
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