He Mutua Madrid Openas Indian Wells, meets all the requirements to be considered a kind of quinto Grand Slam of the tennis circuit. In the Magic Box of the Spanish capital, a first level infrastructure coincides, the best rackets in the world, innovation outside the very high coulters and economic awards. This Wednesday, the combined contest (of Masters 1000 category for men, WTA 1000 for women) will lift the curtain, with the presence of the best in the world and eight Argentines In the paintings.
Juan Manuel Cerú (126°) y María Lourdes Carlé (119 °) They overcame the classification and entered the main box. This Wednesday, Juanma will be measured with the American Aleksandar Kovacevic (77 °), while Carlé will face the Slovak Rebecca Samkova (38 °).
In addition, this Wednesday they will play Mariano Navone (85°) vs. the French Francisco Comesaña (70 °) vs. the Spanish Pedro Martínez (48 °) and Camilo Ugo Carabelli (59 °) vs. The Australian Christopher O’Connell (87 °). Thursday, surely, will debut Tomás Etcheverry (51 °), before the Serbian Hamad Medjedovic (61 °). Besides, Francisco closing it (21°) y Sebastián Báez (33 °) They will be advanced and will debut directly in the second round.
Among the men, the German Alexander Zverev (2nd), who arrived in Madrid after winning the ATP 500 of Munich, will be the first preclassified and in the second round will be measured with the winner of a 100% local duel: Roberto Bautista Agut or Jaume Munar.
Carlos Alcaraz, the second favorite, waits in the second wheel by Zizou Bergs (Belgium) or Yoshihito Nishioka (Japan), although the current number 3 of the world is in doubt. The Murcia needed treatment at the top of the right leg during his defeat against Holger Rune in the Barcelona final, on Sunday. “I feel good physically. I have done studies and we’ll see what the results say. I am used to playing with discomfort, so we hope to play and enjoy in Madrid,” said Alcaraz, which is in the same part of the painting as Novak Djokovic and could cross the semifinals.
Nole, current number 5 of the world and fourth preclassified in Madrid, aroused huge contagion in the public, which crowded in the fences to ask for autographs and photos. The winner of 24 Grand Slass trophies obtained the title in the Spanish capital three times: 2011, 2016 and 2019. He does not compete in the tournament since 2022. and seeks to reach the title number one hundred of his career.
Montecarlo and Paris are the only tournaments of the nine 1000 Masters that are played in a week. All the rest, including Madrid, grew almost two weeks, a situation that is not attractive to many protagonists. “The 1000 masters should be one week, because for us it is very fatigue to be two weeks away from home. Then you go to the other tournament, and if you are doing well, you pass a month through two tournaments, it is a bit of Calvary,” said the Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (29 °), a recent semifinalist of Montecarlo.
“We have no vacation throughout the year, we are traveling every week from one tournament to another and end of the year you end up a little more tired. They have also put the Davis Cup after Paris-Bercry, in the end tired because you do not have so much time to recover in the face of the preseason and Australia,” said Davidovich Fokina, which will be advanced in Madrid.
“Now the two -week 1000 masters begin, then it is not so easy to be focused as if it were one. That is not easy. It is hard to be focused one day and one day not. Let’s see how the first rounds are taking. It will be key to adapt and accept the conditions here, ”added the Malaga.
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