Carlos Alcaraz returns to the Queen’s tournament, and will do so by making his debut against Francisco Cerúndoloaccording to the draw held this Saturday in London
If he beats the Argentine, whom he has never met in a match on the ATP circuit, the Wimbledon champion will play in the round of 16 against one of the most dangerous rivals today, local Jack Draperfinalist this week in Stuttgart and one of the best players at the moment.
Tommy Paul will be waiting in the quarterfinalswhile Grigor Dimitrov emerges as the most likely opponent in the semifinals.
Alex de Minaur, Holger Rune and Taylor Fritz are the three most prominent names in the lower part of the draw and where Alcaraz could only meet in a hypothetical final.
Another Spaniard on the run, Alejandro Davidovich will debut against Chilean Alejandro Tabilowhile Andy Murray, five-time winner of the title, will start against a player from the previous one.
Carlos Alcaraz arrived in London this Saturday after enjoying a few days of vacation with friends in Ibiza to resume competition on grass, an area where he won 16 of 18 matches played as a professional, first appearing in the Queens club tournament before participating in the Wimbledon tournament at the beginning of July.
The young tennis player from Murcia, 21 years old and currently number 2 in the world -only ahead of the Italian Jannik Sinner-, will try to repeat the feat starting Monday at the Queen’s ATP 500 and the third Grand Slam of the seasonwhich will be held from July 1 to 14.
In 2023 he was declared the winner of both tournaments in London, where he achieved 12 consecutive victories., including the finals against Australian Alex de Minaur, by doubles 6-4; and against Serbian Novak Djokovic in five sets 1-6, 7-6 (6), 6-1, 3-6 and 6-4.
Previously, at Wimbledon 2023 he won three matches until he lost to Sinner in the round of 16 (1-6, 4-6, 7-6 (8) and 3-6) and in the 2022 edition of this championship he remained he in the second round by losing there against the Russian Daniil Medvedev (4-6, 1-6 and 2-6).
His 16-2 on grass represents an average of 88.9% winswhich is higher than what he scored on the ground (76-17 for 81.7%) and what he scored on hard court (88-29, for 75.2%).
At Queen’s the pupil of Juan Carlos Ferrero will make his debut on this surface this year when he has played 15 matches on clay (12 wins and 3 losses with the Roland Garros title as a great result) and on fast surfaces he also played 15 (13 wins and 2 losses and the Indian Wells Masters 1,000 as a conquest).
Source: La Verdad
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