As they say ‘he who gets up early, God helped him’ it looks like the Spanish tennis fans have extra help this Saturday. Carlos Alcaraz makes his Shanghai Masters 1000 debut, and he’s doing it at an inconvenient timeand less on weekends.
The Murcian will open the day on center court to face local player Juncheng Shangworld number 51 and recent winner of the Chengdu tournament. It will be 06:30 Spanish peninsular timebefore Jannik Sinner debuts, in his case against Japanese Taro Daniel.
Both the Spaniard and the Italian should enter the competition this Friday, as will the other players in the upper part of the draw, but The organization decided to give them a day off after their epic battle in the final of the Beijing tournament argued last Wednesday.
“I didn’t sleep much. This is not what I want. But it’s okay, here we go“said the world number 2 as he arrived at the Shanghai airport, although he will arrive in top form for his first match.
Luck wants the Spaniard and the Italian to end up at the top of the draw, so They will meet in a hypothetical semifinals.
The theoretical semi-final of the lower part of the draw will measure Alexander Zverev and Novak Djokovicwho returned to the circuit after his early exit from the US Open.
What Alcaraz already knows is that if he beats Shang, his opponent in the third round will be, on Sunday, the Chinese Yibing Wu.. In the round of 16 he will face the winner of the French duel between Ugo Humbert and Gael Monfils, in search of a quarterfinal where the American Tommy Paul may await him.
In its part, Sinner will have Ben Shelton (eighth) and Daniil Medvedev (fourth) as his most prominent rivals until the semifinals.
Due to the loss of the table, Djokovic will appear again this Saturday (12:30 pm) against American Alexander Michelsenwith Tiafoe (eighth) and Dimitrov or Rublev (fourth) as the most important opponents before a hypothetical semifinal against Zverev.
Source: La Verdad
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