Wimbledon This is the most dangerous Grand Slam for the title favourites. This is due to the idiosyncrasy of the grass, the change from the clay of Roland Garros on the lawn of London. An equation that becomes complicated for those arriving far from Paris, who hardly have time to make a proper transfer. And until not so long ago the distance was only two weeks, not three like now between both events.
On grass the forces are equal if the opponent is a good server. Or a born puncher on the day of inspiration. He checked it Carlos Alcaraz in the view of Frances Tiafoe, who had to overcome a stressful result from one set to two. He corrected it in ‘in extremis’, in the tiebreak of the fourth set, in an all or nothing situation.
Italian too Jannik Sinner suffered before his countrymen Matteo Berrettini, which almost took him to the fifth round.
Clay or hard courts offer a greater margin against accidents, although in the first three rounds of a Grand Slam the heavyweights still land, from less to more to reach their maximum in the main rounds, those in the title. It is also not advisable to be too early in time.
Alcaraz and Sinner They made it to the round of 16, somewhat cut off from the upper part of the draw, waiting for rain to complete this Saturday’s matches that were not completed on Friday.
It is also the turn of Novak Djokovicagainst the Australians Alexei Popyrin, his obstacle to joining his top-3 teammates in the round of 16. Let’s see how the Serbian’s operated right knee responds. Bad weather doesn’t help damaged joints.
HIGH PART
Jannik Sinner (ITA/1)-Denis Shapovalov (CAN) or Ben Shelton (USA/14)
Grigor Dimitrov (BUL/10)-Jan Lennard Struff (Ale) o Daniil Medvedev (Russian/5)
Carlos Alcaraz (ESP/3)-Brandon Nakashima (USA) or Ugo Humbert (Fra/16)
Tommy Paul (USA/12)-Roberto Bautista (Esp) or Fabio Fognini (Ita)
BELOW
Francisco Comesaña (ARG) or Lorenzo Musetti (ITA/25)-Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (FRA) or Emil Ruusuvuori (FIN)
Taylor Fritz (USA/13) o Alejandro Tabilo (CHI/24)-Cameron Norrie (GBR) o Alexander Zverev (GER/N.4)
Arthur Fils or Roman Safiullin (RUS)-Lucas Pouille (FRA) or Alex De Minaur (AUS/9)
Holger Rune (DIN/15) or Quentin Halys (FRA)-Alexei Popyrin (AUS) or Novak Djokovic (SRB/2)
HIGH PART
Iga Swiatek (POL/1) o Yulia Putintseva (KAZ)-Bernarda Pera (USA) o Jelena Ostapenko (LET/13)
Danielle Collins (USA/11) or Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA/20)-Barbora Krejcikova (CHE/31) or Jessica Bouzas (ESP)
Elena Rybakina (KAZ/4) o Caroline Wozniacki (Din)-Anna Kalinskaya (RUS/17) o Liudmila Samsonova (RUS/15)
Ons Jabeur (TUN/10) o Elina Svitolina (UCR/21)-Harriet Dart (GBR) o Xinyu Wang (CHN)
BELOW
Lulu Sun (NZL)-Emma Raducanu (GBR)
Paula Badosa (ESP)-Donna Vekic (CRO)
Jasmine Paolini (ITA/7)-Madison Keys (USA/12)
Emma Navarro (USA/19)-Coco Gauff (USA/2)
Source: La Verdad
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