Carlos Alcaraz Yesterday he was forced to withdraw for the second time this season from a tournament (Basel) that was on his agenda. In April he did not compete in Monte Carlo.
The Murcian, with 72 games played this season, with a balance of 63 wins and nine losseshe wants to reach the final stretch of the course as much as possible, which for him are the events Paris-Bercy (October 30 to November 5) and the ATP Finals in Turin (November 12 to 19). This Thursday the countdown begins with his return to the training courts.
Alcaraz, 500 points behind Novak Djokovic in the race to finish as number oneeverything will be played in two tournaments in which they share a total of 2,500 points.
The accounts of Juan Carlos Ferrero’s pupil go through do better than Djokovic in both Bercy and Turin to repeat for the second year in a row at the top of tennis at the end of the year.
The El Palmar tennis player would need at least make the final in the French capital (600 points) to have mathematical options of passing to the Serbian.
It should be remembered that Novak He has not played a match since appearing for Valencia in the group stage of the Davis Cup after his title at the US Open.
At the Alpitour in Turin Each of the ’round robin’ victories is worth 200 points, the pass to the final 400 and the victory 500for a total of 1,500 points if a player finishes undefeated, as was the case with Djokovic in the last edition.
With options in the teacher appointment
Whatever happens in Paris, Carlitos will arrive with mathematical options of being ATP leader in Turin. And in the last TMS of the calendar he will be exempt from the initial round as the second seed, so he is assured of 10 points in the second round.
This is the Race 2023
Novak Djokovic 8.945
Carlos Alcaraz 8,445
Daniil Medvedev 6.935
Jannik Sinner 4,945
Andrey Rublev 4.275
Djokovic has taken advantage of his break to visit Slovenia and attend some of the Red Star Belgrade basketball team’s games.
Viktor Troicki, Serbian Davis Cup captain, confirmed that Nole will start the next season in the United Cup. Alcaraz, for his part, will travel directly to the Australian Open, playing only one exhibition before the first major in 2024.
2023-10-19 05:08:35
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