Good evening and welcome to the early morning tennis in New York. We kick off the US Open with theCarlos Alcaraz’s debut for another season at the Arthur Ashe center. The Murcian returns to the courts that saw him lift his first Grand Slam two years ago in what is his fourth participation in the tournament. Third seed, who defend the semifinals from last season when lost to Daniil Medvedev 6-7(3), 1-6, 6-3 and 3-6, reaches the last ‘major’ with just a match played on hard court, After falling in the first round in Cincinnati against Monfils, Alcaraz, with some doubts about his performance at the Masters 1000 in Ohio, has made a clean slate and is ready to reconquer New York.
On a road full of mines, the Murcian will have a small respite in his first test. His first rival will be Li Tu, the 186th ATP player who comes from the qualifying phaseThe 28-year-old Australian, with just eight games played in the ATP circuit, He has only won one match throughout his career. This was in Newport a 2023when he defeated Aleksandar Vukic. His professional debut was in the midst of the pandemic in 2021, in the middle of that year’s Australian tour that was concentrated in Melbourne.
Without precedents between the two, Carlos Alcaraz starts with a great advantage over to the Australian who will play his second match in a Grand SlamCuriously, his other rival in a ‘major’ was another Spaniard, Feliciano Lopez, who managed to win a set at the Australian Open. Despite arriving with little experience, the Murcian He does not seem worried about it, having as a comparison the situations he found in Paris and London“It doesn’t affect me at all. If I look back a little, for example, I arrived at Roland Garros without having played many matches on clay, and I had a very good result. And at Wimbledon, the same.”
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