The casualties in Rome by the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz and the Italian Jannik Sinner They planned on Roland Garros, which will take place from May 26 to June 9. It also raised doubts Rafael Nadal who in the Italian capital does not want to confirm whether or not he will play the Grand Slam he has won fourteen times.
For now, Alcaraz, Sinner and Nadal They are early risers, and are in Paris checking their respective fitness levels. Barring an accident in extremis, the three are in the draw for the draw that will be held this Thursday in the French capital, at two o’clock in the afternoon.
Roland Garros has, so far, avoided weight loss in the men’s team, although there have been absences such as that of the injured Croatian. Marin Cilic or that the Austrian Dominic Thiem, a two-time finalist, did not make it past the previous stage. The French Tennis Federation (FFT) did not want to give him an invitation to say goodbye to the best.
Overcome problems or incidents, but Roland Garros could not avoid having its first known victim in 2024 even before the hype revealed how the sports competition would develop.
The first top-10 to withdraw from the event was world number five, the American Jessica Pegula. “Unfortunately, I am out of Roland Garros this year. I just returned to training after suffering physical problems for weeks. If I had had between five and seven more days I would have been one hundred percent already,” she said.
His idea was to focus on grass. He has not competed since April, when he began to suffer from a neck injury, although he did not reveal again what caused him to be out for so long, as he missed out on Stuttgart, Madrid and Rome.
A quarterfinalist at Roland Garros 2022, he represents one less threat to the two big favorites, the Polish Iga Swiatek and the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka.
Source: La Verdad
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