Carlos Alcaraz will be the first of the title favorites to debut at this edition of Roland Garros. He will do so this Sunday against JJ Wolf.
The North American, who has not won any ATP titles and played only one final on the circuit, on the indoor hard court in Florence, entered the tournament as a knockout after falling in the final round of the qualifying phase.
The debut that Carlos Alcaraz will get in the new edition of the Roland Garros tournament is the most demanded considering the ATP ranking of the rival. Well, Wolf, 25 years old, is 107th in the world and, until now, the Murcian’s highest-ranked opponent in his debut in Paris is Bernabé Zapata, measured in 2021 when the Valencian is ranked no. 128.
This year the Palmareño’s journey to the Paris stadium will begin against a rival he has never faced. Last year, Wolf reached the 39th position in the ATP after reaching the round of 16 in Shanghai. and the Australian Open and the quarterfinals in Washington, Eastbourne and Houston and the semifinals in Atlanta and Dallas.
This season their level is not the same and their best result is the quarterfinals of the Turin promotion tournament.
The match will be played on Sunday at around 2 pmjust after the match between Naomi Osaka and Lucia Bronzetti at 12 noon,
‘Wolfi’, as he is known and comes from a family of athletes –His father was also a tennis player and his grandfather coached the Detroit Pistons in NBA basketball-, is from the qualifying phase and not exactly a clay court specialist.
A priori he is an affordable rival for Alcaraz, whoever wins the duel between the British Jack Draper and the Dutch Jesper de Jong will await him in the second round. In the third round could be the American Sebastian Korda.
Already in the round of 16, his opponent may leave the rivalry between another American like Bel Shelton and the Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassimewhile in the quarterfinals a clash is planned against the winner of the match between the Russian Andrey Rublev and the Greek Stephanos Tsitsipas.
In the semifinals he will face the world number 2, the Italian Jannik Sinner, or the Polish Hubert Hurkacz. The Serbian Novak Djokovic, number 1, or even Rafa Nadal can only be measured in the final.
Source: La Verdad
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