Carlos Alcaraz Garfia It will complete the 2023 season by exploring new regions in Asia. The El Palmar player, who has not competed since losing to Daniil Medvedev in the US Open semifinals, will return to the court on September 28 in the China Open, an ATP tournament he has not played in his short sports career so far. 500 played on an outdoor fast track in Beijing. And as the Murcian tackles the racquet of his biggest rival in the fight to become world No. 1, Novak Djokovic, He is taking a break after Serbia qualified for the Davis Cup finals in Valencia. In fact, the Belgrade champion plans to play only two individual tournaments until the end of the season; Masters 1,000 Paris-Bercy from October 30 to November 5 and Nitto ATP Finals from November 12 to 19. The final stage of the Davis Cup will be held in Malaga from 21 to 26 November.
Carlos Alcaraz will have much more activities and therefore save world number 1. He is now 3,260 points behind the Serb, who has to defend 2,850 points in this final sprint and is certain to lose 750 points as he will not be in Astana or Tel Aviv, where he went as an alternative a year ago. Not being able to join the US tour because he refused to be vaccinated. He then has 1,500 points from the ATP Finals (champion) and 600 points from the Paris Masters (finalist).
on your behalfAlcaraz maintains just 360 points from now until the end of the season; 180 points come from Paris-Bercy and the same amount from Basel.A tournament scheduled from 4 to 15 October on a calendar that also includes the China Open and Shanghai Masters.
The Murcian’s next stop after his Asian tour will be the Swiss Indoors in Basel from 23-29 October, an ATP 500 in the same place he already was last year, where he will return to prepare for indoor speed racing events. He has barely competed and will follow: the Masters 1.00 in Paris from 30 October to 5 November and the ATP Finals in Turin from 12 to 19 November. The season will end there for the Murcian, as Spain failed to qualify for the Davis Cup finals, so he will have more time to rest and prepare for the 2024 clashes in December.
We finish 2023 in first place, we are within reach
Despite the distance between us now Alcaraz and DjokovicThe Murcian has a good chance of finishing the year first in both the ATP rankings and the Race of Champions; He has six championships here and is the player who won the most matches with 58 matches. It will regain the leadership by adding this number in Beijing and Shaghai, which is 770 points ahead of Serbian El Palmar, which is called the ATP Race, but will have the option of reaching 1,500 points if it wins both. He would then have the opportunity to increase his income in Basel and also in Paris Bercy, where he only reached the quarter-finals last year. Moreover, the ATP Finals in 2022, which he could not participate in due to injury.