Roland Garros has started showing its cards for the programming of the first round of the men’s and women’s individual draws. The tournament begins this Sunday, May 26, with twenty matches from the bottom of the men’s draw in action.
Among them, as one of the figures of the inauguration, Carlos Alcaraz, who is waiting for the preliminary phase to end and the position of the survivors to be drawn to meet his rival in the debut, which is also the reappearance after the defeat against Andrey Rublev in the Madrid quarterfinals and absent in Rome due to muscle edema due to an injury to the right forearm.
The day, which still has no specific time, also contains Stan Wawrinka-Andy Murray or Richard Gasquet-Borna Coric. Valencian Pedro Martínez will also open, against Argentine Thiago Agustín Tirante. Andrey Rublev will face the Japanese Taro Daniel.
But the focus is on the ‘bombshell’ caused by the draw, the rivalry between the fourteen-time champion, Rafa Nadal, and the recent winner of the ATP Masters 1000 in Rome, Alexander Zverev, who reached the semifinals of three editions. before the event in Paris.
Nadal and Zverev have a date on Monday, May 27. Roland Garros now has the job of trying to coordinate the interests, of players, tournaments and television, to set the schedule.
Source: La Verdad
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