He Masters 1,000 of Rome starts this week and will be attended by Carlos Alcaraz In the painting. The Spanish tennis player is back after the Mutua Madrid Open for a small injury. A few weeks after Roland Garros, Neither the Murcian nor his team wanted to risk and is already fully recovered.
They have not been easy days for the Murcian. After winning Montecarlo and shine in the Count of Godóhis incredible role on the beaten earth in 2025 was truncated by an injury in the final of the Catalan tournament. Some discomfort in the right adductor that prevented him from fighting for the title against Rune In full conditions.
The accident came just a few days before Mutua Madrid Open, a tournament in which it was undoubtedly the great attraction. He did not go to training in the days before his foreseeable debut and all alarms jumped before a possible absence of that of The palmar.
Alcaraz himself left doubts about his physical condition in the presentation of his Netflix documentary and a day later confirmed the worst omens. He fell at the last minute and began a job to counterreloj to get to Roland Garros.
He stopped a few days and began to train gently until he improves his sensations. And it seems to be ready for battle. Retrieved from any discomfort, Alcaraz will be in the 1,000 Masters in Rome that takes place between May 5 and 18.
Duel with Sinner
Alcaraz will return to the clay of Rome two years later. He was not present in the last edition, but he did in 2023 where he fell in second round against Hungarian Fabian Marozsan.
-Rome will be an important tournament for the Murcian for several reasons. The effort of the Spanish player to play this tournament is due to the possibility of being number 2 in the world for Roland Garros, in addition to sharing a picture with Jannik Sinner After more than a year without crossing on the surface of whipped earth.
As the Murcian did not play last year, he does not defend points and everything that wins will be points for the ranking. Instead, Alexander Zverev (Current number 2) He raised the title last year, so he will need to do it again so as not to cross with Sinner in Paris before the final.
With the presence of Spanish in the Italian tournament, Zverev has it practically impossible to maintain that second position. The distance between the two in the classification is just 200 points, so the Teuton would need to win the tournament and that the Spanish fell into one of the first rounds. An unlikely scenario.
When Carlos Alcaraz plays his next game
Carlos Alcaraz will make his debut at the Italic forum, stage of the 1,000 Masters in Rome, next Friday, May 9. For its part, the premises Sinner, first head of the tournament, will do the same one day later, on Saturday.
The organization of the event reported Monday that the second round in the part of the Alcaraz box, Las Laba, will begin on Friday. The Murcia, with 22 years old, will debut before the winner of the duel between the German Jan-Lennard Struff and the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka.
For its part, Sinner, first series head of the tournament, will do the same next Saturday, May 10 before the winner of the duel between the Argentine Mariano Navone and the Italian Federico Cinà
The raffle of the tournament, which took place this Monday in the iconic Fontana Di Trevi, provided that the duel between them could only be prourate in a final hypothetical, on May 18, a party that Sinner assured does not have the objective of achieving.
