Carlos Alcaraz Garfiaseventh player in the ATP rankings at the age of 19, shows his competitive gene at the highest level and he has already surpassed what he did in his start by most of the best in world tennis at Grand Slam tournaments, except for Rafael Nadal.
The young Murcian tennis player hopes to maintain this trend at the Wimbledon tournament, where he hopes to debut with victory against German Jan Lennard Struff and thus add 6 to 6 to his debuts in ” major “where he will play. date.
The man from El Palmar found out on Friday that he had to face a veteran like Struff (32 years old and 158 in the world) on the lawn of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club and for that he continues to prepare.
The German has not returned good memories since he sent him to Roland Garros more than a year ago in the third round, beating him in three sets 4-6, 6-7 (3) and 2-6 when Murcian was Second. 97 on the international list and its rival 42.
If the Spaniard progresses, he could cross paths with Serbian Novak Djokovic in the hypothetical quarter-final.
Before knowing the result of the draw, he played against American Frances Tiafoe, twenty-eighth in the ATP, who beat him 6-4, 6-2 at the Hurlingham exhibition tournament in London, weeks after his participation in Roland Garros, and this Saturday he will again appear in that exclusive appointment against Norwegian Casper Ruud, who is fifth.
Although comparisons to Rafa Nadal have been repeated since Alcaraz appeared on the circuit, the fact is that the Mallorcan is the only one of the tennis players in the classification to improve the appearance of the player from Palma in his first Grand Slam tournaments.
Juan Carlos Ferrero’s student has had five successful debuts in tournaments this large and his top is the quarterfinals he reached both at the 2021 United States Open and at Roland Garros in 2022.
In the third round he remained at the Australian Open in 2022 and in the second at Wimbledon and in Australia last year.
His background in the final tables of the four biggest ATP tournaments is 14 wins and 6 losses in 20 games.
Five of the five winners of the premieres are far from being signed by most of the best rackets on the international scene.
Nadal is paramount in this particular classification and that is the man from Manacor, with 22 Grand Slam titles -14 at Roland Garros, 4 in the United States, 2 at Wimbledon and another 2 in Australia -, was in the 64 final table of this type of tournament and only fell twice in the first round.
The first was in his thirty-five presence when he lost at Wimbledon in 2013 against Belgian Steve Darcis, then number 135 in the world, 6-7 (4), 6-7 (8) and 4-6. His second failure in the first change came in Australia in 2016 against fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco, who was number 45 and beat him 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-3, 6-7 (4) and 2-6. .
Nadalwho in the Grand Slam has a record of 305 wins and 41 losses, won his first major title at Roland Garros 2005 in his sixth entry in a major, which Alcaraz will surely face in London.
Clearly the man from Manacor, the fourth player in the world, is a mirror in which to look at himself and also the Murcian, whose appearance on the circuit at the highest level improves the other two parts of the so-called and the “Big Three”.
Roger Federer, With 20 Grand Slam titles and a record 369 wins and 60 losses, he lost his first match in a final draw of this category. The Swiss, 40 years old and away from the main spotlight for some time-now he is 96th in the rankings-fell to Roland Garros in 1999 7-5, 3-6, 0-6 and 2-6 against the Australian Patrick Rafter.
The one from Basel will have to wait for his seventeenth appearance in a Grand Slam to lift the trophy. It was at Wimbledon 2003, beating Australian Mark Philippoussis 7-6 (5), 6-2, 7-6 (3) in the final.
Something similar happened Djokovic, there are also 20 wounds and a 327-47. The Serbian, who dropped to third place in the ATP, fell to his debut by a resounding 0-6, 2-6 and 1-6 against Russian Marat Safin in Australia in 2005.
The Belgrade player won his first tournament at that level in his thirteenth appearance by beating Frenchman Jo Wilfred Tsonga 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (2) in Australia 2008 .
Also in the first round, the Russian went home to his Grand Slam debut Daniel Medvedevcurrent number 1, and the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, number 6.
The German alexander zverevIt was made by, the 2, in the first change in his second appearance and Casper Ruud, the 5, in the third.
Source: La Verdad
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