Rafael Nadal y Carlos Alcarazthe two main strengths of Spanish tennis today, could cross in the quarterfinals of the Madrid Masters 1,000 if both overcome their respective rivals first, with the number one in the world, the Serbian Novak Djokovicas a potential opponent for the winner in the semifinal round.
This is how the path of the tournament was established in the draw held in the Twitch set of the Magic Boxwith the player Pablo Carreno as in charge of extracting the balls that made up the individual table of the Madrid tournament and with the presence of the director of the competition, Feliciano López.
This is how Nadal and Alcaraz arrive in Madrid
Nadal, five times champion in Madrid and who returns to competition after six weeks recovering from a crack in his ribs, will start his career in the twentieth edition of the tournament in the second round, against the winner of the duel between the Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic and the Kazakh Alexander Bublik.
alcarazwho comes to the competition as champion of the Barcelona tournament and ninth player on the circuit, will go into action with the winner of the clash between the Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili and the italian Fabio Fognini.
Djokovicfirst favorite and who circulates on the same side of the draw as Nadal and Alcaraz, will debut against whoever comes out ahead of the first round clash between the Spanish Carlos Gimeno-Valeroguest of the tournament, and the French Gael Monfils.
The draw provided a clash full of incentives for its initial stretch. Two protagonists in past editions of the tournament in the first days. The British Andy Murray who won the title in 2008 and 2015 and the Austrian Dominik Thiemfinalist in 2017 and 2018.
On the other side of the table, headed by the German Alexander Zverevcurrent champion, and the Greeko Stefanos Tsitsipas, the draw provided a possible quarter-final with the german and the canadian Felix Auger and the Greek with the Russian Andrey Rublev.
As for the rest of the Spaniards, Alexander Davidovich will start with the South African Lloyd Harris and Robert Baptist with the Croatian Borna Coric. Pablo Carreno, finalist in Barcelona last Sunday, will start the competition in Madrid against the Dutchman Botic Van de Zandschulp and Peter Martinez with the Australian Alex de Miñaur. Albert Ramos will have as initial opponent the Croatian Marin Cilic.
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