Carlos Alcaraz brings another novelty before Indian Wells

Carlos Alcaraz21 years old and world No. 3, pronounced a few days ago won the Australian Open (January 12-26) is a priority goal in 2025. If achieved, the Murcian will join the elite group of tennis players who have four Grand Slams of tennis: in fact he was the youngest to do so after winning the US Open (2022), Wimbledon (2023, 2024) and Roland Garros (2024).

Then MelbourneAlcaraz changed his plans as he approached the next big tournament of the season, the Masters 1,000 on the hard court in Indian Wells which begins on March 5, where the Spanish player will try to add to his third consecutive title.

This time, Carlos abandoned the South American dirt tour in February and, after the famous choice of joining the indoor ATP in Rotterdam (Netherlands, February 3-9), Alcaraz has added another new tournament to its calendar, Doha (Qatar).

The Qatari tournament, chosen in 2024 for the sixth time as the best ATP 250 of the season, will debut its status as ATP 500 in 2025 with an amazing lineup from February 17 to 22. In the last three seasons, Alcaraz played that week in the land of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), with the title (2022) and final (2023) as the most notable results.

More points at stake and the economic capacity of the Qatari nation have allowed the Doha ATP to now have seven confirmed world top-10s: Jannik Sinner (1st), Carlos Alcaraz (3rd), Daniel Medvedev (5th), Novak Djokovic (7th), Andrey Rublev (8th), Alex De Minaur (9th) and Grigor Dimitrov (10th).

In the face of this tough competition, Alcaraz will try to become the fourth Spanish champion in Doha afterwards Rafael Nadal (2014), David Ferrer (2015) and Roberto Bautista (2019, 2022). The Russian Karen Khachanov He is the current champion.