The Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell-69 Conde de Godó Trophy will speak Spanish today, Saturday. a Murcian, Carlos Alcarazand an Asturian, Pablo Carrenowill try to make what would be the twelfth final entirely Spanish in the tournament that was born in 1953 a reality. An Australian with Alicante residence, of a Uruguayan father and a Spanish mother, will fight to avoid it. Alex de Minaur, and an Argentine Diego Schwartzman.
El Godó will have a new champion, an assumption that was known since Rafael Nadal He had to withdraw due to a stress crack in a rib, which prevented him from defending the crown, from pursuing a thirteenth in his club.
His natural successor, the new phenomenon of universal tennis, Carlos Alcaraz, 18 years old and number eleven in the world, is on track to repeat Nadal’s double in 2005, when he debuted his record at the Godó and the next day he debuted in the top-10 of the ATP ranking. The tennis player from El Palmar is guaranteed promotion to the select club of the top ten.
He will face for the first time Alex de Minaur, 23 years old and 25 in the world. It will be no earlier than 4 in the afternoon. They open the program Pablo Carreño, in his third semifinal at 30 years old, and Diego Schwartzman, at 1:30 p.m. if the rain does not delay it. The weather forecast is adverse until three in the afternoon.
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There may be party especially in the JC Ferrero Academy-Equelite de VillenaAlicante, where Alcaraz spends a lot of time together and whom he considers his sports older brother, Carreño, training under the supervision of Juan Carlos Ferrero and Samuel Lopez. They even share a manager, the Barcelonan Albert Molina.
Alcaraz is released this season, cWith 21 wins in 24 games, the titles in Rio de Janeiro and Miami. He suffered the Monte Carlo stumble against Sebastian Korda, but he has already taken the measure on clay in the transition from the hard court. And he has the support of a devoted public. There is ‘boom’ Alcaraz, ‘Alcarazmania’.
Carreño will also have the crowd on his side in the semifinals. It is still from the RCT Barcelona-1899. In 2018 the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas denied him passage to the final. In 2021, Rafael Nadal. His balance with Diego Schwartzman is favorable, 2-1. In the last edition, the man from Gijón beat ‘Peque’ by 6-4, 3-6 and 7-5 in quarters.
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