The organizers of Rio de Janeiro Openthe only ATP 500 tournament in South America, the Spanish tennis player announced on Tuesday Carlos Alcarazchampion of this season’s edition, as its main claim in the poster of 2023 edition held between February 18 and 26.
“See you at the Rio Open,” Alcaraz himself, currently number seven in the ATP international rankings, announced in a video posted by the organizers of the main Brazilian tennis competition on their social networks.
“We couldn’t be happier to announce that Carlos Alcaraz, our current champion and number 7 in the world, is already guaranteed for the ninth edition of the Rio Open,” the message from the organizers added.
The 19-year-old Spaniard, one of tennis’s greatest manifestations in recent years and compared to his compatriot Rafael Nadal for his early achievements, will play for the third time in the tournament to be held on the Brazilian’s clay court. Jockey. Club.
Alcaraz said on several occasions that he had a special affection for the Rio Open, as it was in the Brazilian city, when he was 16 years old and playing in the tournament thanks to a special invitation, that he won his first victory in an ATP tournament in his race.
It was 2020 and he defeated his compatriot Albert Ramos 2-1.
In Rio de Janeiro he also won the first ATP 500 of his career by beating Diego Schwartzman of Argentina in this year’s finals.
“Alcaraz is already part of the history of the Rio Open and we are part of his history. It’s a great pleasure to have him in 2023. He’s a tennis player we’ve seen play his first ATP here and win. His first ATP 500 here ”, said the competition director, Luiz Carvalho.
The leader added that, after winning the title in Rio in February, Alcaraz made it into the top 10 of the international rankings and since then he has never stopped rising and confirming himself as “one of the big names on the circuit.”
After starting the season with the title in Rio de Janeiro, Alcaraz was champion of the Masters 100 in Miami and Madrid and the ATP 500 in Barcelona, and reached the semifinals of Indian Wells, where he eliminated the Serbian Novak Djokovic and lost to Nadal, and in the quarterfinals of Roland Garros, when he was eliminated by German Alexander Zverev. EFE
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Source: La Verdad
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