Australian Open surprise: Alcaraz, Djokovic and Sinner on ‘Super Monday’

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Tennis Australia (TA) The sport is governed as a federation in the country, as the entity that owns and organizes the Open that will take place between January 12 and 26 at Melbourne Park. The first Grand Slam tournament of the year.

This event copied the successful formula of Roland Garros, which is expected to start the tournament one day, on Sunday. Although it was surprisingly different from the usual Parisian Grand Slam formula.

Australia gives itself another margin day to compete in the first individual round, 128 matches between the men’s and women’s teams. As in France, it is scheduled between Sunday and Tuesday.

The Open decided to open on Sunday the 12th with matches from the lower part of the men’s draw, putting the German on court (in the night session). Alexander Zverevsecond seed. And he chose the registration of women, including Belarusian Aryna Sabalenkacurrent champion and world No. 1, opening a double night shift at headquarters, before the German entered.

In that decision, both Spanish Carlos Alcaraz like a serbian Novak Djokovicwho could collide in the quarterfinals by going to the same section, found out that they will debut in the 2025 edition on Monday the 13th.

That’s how it will be, the Murcian will face the Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko and the Balkans, with the Americans Nishesh Basavareddy.

But the Australian Open was surprised by an unexpected event. If they coincide on the same day (that’s the design of the draw) Alcaraz and Djokovic should have a stellar day, even more so it will be a ‘Super Monday’ built by sports management because Jannik Sinner He will also make his debut on the day, despite the fact that he leads the top half of the table. Against the Chileans Nicholas Jarry.

As will the 2023 finalist, the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas or the polish Iga Swiatek.

It’s crazy, that the final schedules will be known this Saturday. Management of a double session in the central office, day and night, which does not start before 7 pm local, 9 am central European time, Spanish peninsular time.

Source: La Verdad

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