The first big date of Australian Open 2025 it’s here The draw for the paintings will be held in the early morning from Wednesday to Thursday (04:30 Spanish peninsular time).an event that could bring a real bombshell.
The reason is none other than the fact that the three players with the most names and draws in the tournament, Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic could be paired in both halves of the drawwith confrontations between them already in the quarterfinals.
The turning factor is the Serbian’s presence as the number 7 seed. His reduced schedule last season led him to a more likely clash in the quarterfinals with the Italian or the Spanishwhich as the first and third seeds, can be paired in the semifinal of the upper part of the table.
In that case, another theoretical semifinal will face Alexander Zverev (2)the butcher of Alcaraz last year in the quarterfinals, with Taylor Fritz (4)which began this year by leading the United States to victory in the United Cup.
But the level of obstacles does not end here for the favorites, who can suffer a lot from the beginning of the tournament, and We’re not just speculating on the option of either of them pairing up with dangerous gunners of Nick Kyrgios’ staturehesitated until the last minute because of the growing belly, or Reilly Opelkawho made a splash last week by reaching the final of the Brisbane tournament after beating, among others, Novak Djokovic himself in the quarterfinals.
We are talking about one of the great sensations of recent weeks: Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard. The young French tennis player gained the respect and, to a certain extent, the fear of his rivals due to the high level shown both at the end of the last season and at the beginning of 2025.
The young pearl of French tennis, He impressed with his devastating serve, almost impossible to take down when he was right, and his aggressive tennis at the netwhich does not give any kind of rhythm to those in front.
This particular, and almost obsolete, method of playing, makes most tennis players uncomfortable on the circuit, who prefer not to meet a tennis player like that on tracks with the characteristics of those at Melbourne Park.
Well, as the 30th seed, Mpetshi Perricard has enough numbers to rival one of the top four in the draw, Sinner, Zverev, Alcaraz or Fritzundoubtedly very bad news for either of them.
To summarize, Carlos Alcaraz could face a draw like this: Nick Kyrgios in the first round, Mpetshi Perricard in the third, Holger Rune or Jack Draper in the round of 16, Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals and Jannik Sinner in the semifinals. Almost nothing for its first tournament in almost two months.
Source: La Verdad
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