Alcaraz, after his resignation in Rome, is preparing for Roland Garros

The tennis player Starting this Thursday, Carlos Alcaraz is preparing his next participation in Roland Garros of Paris in JC Ferrero Equelite Sport Academy facility in Villena (Alicante).

The Murcian tennis player, who trains these days in Real Sociedad Club de Campo de Murcia, in El Palmar, where he started playing tennisadvancement to his preparations for Roland Garros, a tournament where he will reappear at the end of the month after giving up playing the 1,000 Masters in Rome through discomfort dragging in the right arm.

21 years old and number 3 in the ATP rankingsAlcaraz was accompanied to those sessions held at his team’s house, with coach Juan Carlos Ferrero at the helm, and He was seen with a comprehensive muff that continuously covers his right arm and which he used at the Mutua Madrid Open.

The man from Palma is gradually increasing the intensity of the punches and starting this Thursday he will train at the JC Ferrero Equelite Sport Academy in the Alicante town of Villena. Next week he heads to Paris, where he will compete in his second Grand Slam of the season – the first, at the Australian Open, he fell in the quarterfinals against German Alexander Zverev by 1-6, 3-6, 7-6 (2) and 4-6-.

He will do it when playing just eight games in the last two monthsbecause He won the Indian Wells Masters 1,000 title, so far his only trophy on the course and won by defeating Russian Daniil Medvedev 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, Well in both cases He fell in the quarterfinals against Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov by 2-6 and 4-6 and Russian Andrey Rublev by 6-4, 3-6 and 2-6respectively.

The fact of only playing those eight games and also spending time without training because of that physical problem and a sprained right anklewhich he suffered at the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro in February, has sent him off with a lack of competition at this point in the year because He only played 23 gameswhere he won 18.

In that sense, he is at a clear disadvantage compared to most of the other strong candidates for victory in Paris.

Of those currently in the Top 10 only Novak Djokovicwho is number 1 and is 36 years old – next wednesday he will be 37 – he has been working on dosing for a long time, He played fewer games than Alcaraz in 2024. The Serbian just competed 17 meetings since January, with 12 wins and 5 losses and in Rome they fell in the third round.

The Italian Jannik Sinner, second player in the world and also absent from the transalpine capital in his case due to a hip injury, He has played 30 matches this season where he won 28 and lost only 2.

more played Medvedev, fourth in 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 32-8, Greek 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, Mallorca Rafa Nadal, champion in Paris 14 times since 2005the most in history, but his physical condition continues to bring him down, 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-.