Carlos Alcarazwho trains these days at the Real Sociedad Club de Campo de Murcia, in El Palmar, where he started playing tennis, progressing in his preparations for Roland Garros, a tournament where he will appear again at the end of the month after giving up playing the 1,000 Masters in Rome due to discomfort he had in his right forearm.
The Murcian, 21 years old and number 3 in the ATP rankings, was accompanied to the sessions held at his team’s house, with coach Juan Carlos Ferrero at the helm, and was seen with a comprehensive muff that continues to cover his right arm and he has already used it at the Mutua Madrid Open.
The man from Palma continues to increase the intensity of the punches and starting this Thursday he will train at the JC Ferrero Equelite Sport Academy from the Alicante town of Villena. Next week he will go to Paris, where he will compete in the second Grand Slam of the season – in the first, the Australian Open, he lost in the quarterfinals against the German Alexander Zverev by 1-6, 3-6, 7- 6 (2) and 4-6-.
He will do so having played just eight matches in the last two months, since winning the 1,000 Masters title in Indian Wells, so far his only trophy on the course and which he won by defeating Russian Daniil Medvedev of 7-6 (5) and 6-1 on March 17.
Since then he has played four matches in two more tournaments of the same category, in Miami and Madrid.in both cases he fell in the quarterfinals against the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov by 2-6 and 4-6 and the Russian Andrey Rublev by 6-4, 3-6 and 2-6, respectively.
The fact of playing only eight matches and also spending time without training due to physical problems and a sprained right ankle, which he suffered at the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro in February, This is why he left with a lack of competition at this point of the year because he only played 23 games, of which he won 18.
In that sense is at a clear disadvantage compared to most of the other strong candidates to achieve victory in Paris.
Of those currently occupying the top 10, only Novak Djokovic, who is number 1 and is 36 years old – next Wednesday he will be 37 – has been working on dosing for a long time, he has played fewer matches than Alcaraz in 2024 .The Serbian have played just 17 matches since January, with 12 wins and 5 losses and in Rome they crashed out in the third round.
The Italian Jannik Sinnersecond player in the world and also absent from the transalpine capital in his case due to a hip injury, He played 30 games this season, winning 28 and losing only 2.
Medvedev played betterfourth on the ATP list, with a record of 24 wins and 7 losses.
Other players in the top 10 also played more than thirty games during that time. Zverev showed 25-9, Rublev 22-8, Norwegian Casper Ruud 32-8Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas 24-8, Polish Hubert Hurkacz 26-10 and Dimitrov 24-8.
Of them, only Zverev, Tsitsipas and Hurkacz are in contention in Rome, the first of them in the semi-finals and the other two in the quarterfinals, as Ruud fell in the second round, Rublev in the third and Medvedev and Dimitrov in the round of 16.
In its part, Rafael Nadalchampion in Paris 14 times since 2005, the most in history, but physical condition continues to degrade him, He played only 11 games this year, of which he won 7 and lost 4 and is coming to Roland Garros after being knocked out in the second round in Rome.
In terms of titles, the leader in 2024 is Sinner with three -Australia, Rotterdam and Miami-, while Rublev won two -Hong Kong and Madrid- and one each went to Alcaraz, Ruud -Barcelona-, Tsitsipas -Monte Carlo- , Hurkacz -Estoril- and Dimitrov -Brisbane-.
Source: La Verdad
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