Once his participation in the ATP Finals in Turin has ended, Carlos Alcaraz He will travel this Saturday to Malaga to meet with the rest of the members of a Spanish National Team of which he is a part for the Final 8 of the Davis Cup (November 19 to 24). The Murcian tennis player, who dropped out of the last ATP tournament of the year in the group stage after losing to Alexander Zverev in two sets this Friday, will immediately change his chip and is already thinking about the tennis world cup, which will be even more special due to the retirement of Rafa Nadal, with whom Alcaraz will share his last days as a professional.
The one from El Palmar is scheduled to land in the city on the Costa del Sol this Saturday, just one day after being eliminated in Turin and just three days before Spain's debut in the Davis Cup, which will take place next Tuesday in the quarterfinals against Holland (5:00 p.m. the first match). Alcaraz is the number one of the National Team by ranking, and his will be the task, if nothing strange happens such as his cold getting worse, of measuring himself against the rival leaders. It will be the first Davis Finals that the Murcian prodigy plays, since last year Spain did not qualify and in both 2022 and 2021 he missed the event, so it will be his first great opportunity to conquer the Salad Bowl.
With the arrival of Alcaraz this Saturday, captain David Ferrer will be able to train with his five summoned players for three days. Rafa Nadal, Roberto Bautista and Pedro Martínez arrived in Malaga this Thursday and trained on the Martín Carpena court this Friday, the day Marcel Granollers joined the training camp after being eliminated from the ATP Finals doubles. Carlitos, for the first time in his career, will share a Davis team with Nadal, with whom he was at the Paris Olympic Games in which he formed a doubles pair with the Spaniard, one of his great idols.
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