Carlos Alcaraz is seeking these days on American soil to achieve the double known as ‘Sunshine Double’win Indian Wells and Miami consecutively.
Only seven male tennis players in history have achieved it. Jim Courier (1991), Michael Chang (1992), Pete Sampras (1994)the Chilean Marcelo Ríos (1998) and Andre Agassi (2001) achieved it once, but Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic signed the ‘Sunshine Double’ several times: three in the case of the Swiss (2005, 2016 and 2017) and four the Serbian (2011, 2014, 2015, 2016).
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Semifinalist last year, The Murcian will debut against another Spaniard, Roberto Carballéswho this Thursday defeated the Australian Aleksandar Vukic (n.65) 7-6(2) and 6-3 in the first round after a very close match in which there was barely one break in total.
The Spaniard won the first set in the tiebreaker 7-2 in one hour and made a good break in the fourth game of the second to advance to the round.
Carballés, 30 years old, reached this same round in Indian Wells, when he faced another highly demanding rival, the Russian Daniil Medvedev.
The game will be played on Saturdayin the first shift of the afternoon session, that is not before 00:00 Spanish peninsular time.
2024-03-22 07:01:56
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