The casualties in Rome of the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz and the Italian Jannik Sinner They planned on Roland Garros, which takes place from May 26 to June 9. It also raised doubt Rafael Nadal, who in the Italian capital did not want to confirm whether or not he would play the Grand Slam that he has won fourteen times.
For now, Alcaraz, Sinner and Nadal They have been early risers, and are in Paris examining their respective fitness levels. Barring an accident in extremis, all three will be in the draw for the draw that will be held this Thursday in the French capital, at two in the afternoon.
Roland Garros has avoided, for now, a weight loss in the men’s team, although there are absences like that of the injured Croatian Marin Cilic or that the Austrian Dominic Thiem, a two-time finalist, has not passed the previous phase. The French Tennis Federation (FFT) did not want to grant him an invitation to say goodbye among the best.
Overcoming problems or incidents, but Roland Garros has not been able to avoid having its first illustrious victim of 2024 even before the hype revealed how the sporting competition will develop.
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The first top-10 to withdraw from the event is the world number five, the American Jessica Pegula. “Unfortunately, I am out of Roland Garros this year. I have just returned to training after suffering physical problems for weeks. If I had had five to seven more days I would have been one hundred percent already,” she said.
His idea is to focus on the grass. She had not competed since April, when she began to suffer from a neck injury, although she has not revealed again what caused her to be out for so long, because she no longer appeared in Stuttgart, Madrid and Rome.
Quarterfinalist at Roland Garros 2022, she represents one less threat to the two big favorites, the Polish Every Swiatek and the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka.
2024-05-23 10:32:23
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