Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz will begin his journey in the tournament this Tuesday. Paris-Bercy, It will be the ninth and final Masters 1000 of the season, kicking off the final stretch of a spectacular 2023. ATP Finals From Turin (Italy).
The Murcian, currently number two in the world, arrives in the French capital and continues to battle to finish at the top of the rankings for his second consecutive campaign; A fierce fight with Serbian Novak Djokovic. a few weeks of rest after winning US Open and play Davis cup.
The player from El Palmar aims to complete the year on the Paris indoor court in the best possible way, due to the physical problems that he has experienced a small regression in recent months and from which he has not fully recovered. has improved enough to reach as far as possible in this regard last Masters 1000 In 2022, he suffered a full injury in the quarter-final against Dane Holger Rune.
So Alcaraz has not tasted the title since his big victory at Wimbledon, and has since pared down his magnificent performance with only one more final appearance, a sensational final against ‘Nole’ at the Cincinnati Masters 1000. The semi-finals in New York and Beijing were the best results for the Spaniard, who appeared in the last Masters 1000. Shanghai (China) was eliminated in the quarter-finals against the great Grigor Dimitrov.
He later withdrew from the tournament. Basel (Switzerland) and will now try to be among the best again in an event where he will debut against a dangerous opponent, 45-year-old Russian Roman Safiullin, in the afternoon-night session and not before 19:30. The world that has never been measured before and will come faster after beating the Frenchman this Monday Alexandre Müller (7-6, 6-3), but the Murcian has also improved his structure by training at a high level with Djokovic.
If he gets past his debut, the road at Paris-Bercy will get tougher with another Russian. Karen Khachanov, Greece as possible opponent in the round of 16 Stefanos Tsitsipas or German Alexander Zverev in quarters and Russian Daniil Medvedev He’s in great form and his executioner is in a hypothetical semi-final at the US Open.