“The Number 1 of the ATP ranking will play in Argentina! The 19-year-old Spaniard will participate for the first time in our tournament. We are waiting for you, @carlosalcaraz!”, reported the Argentina Open in Twitter.
The announcement is accompanied by a video of Alcaraz himself in which he says: “Hello everyone, I wanted to let you know that I am going to play the Argentina Open. The truth that I had I’m very excited to be able to go to Argentina, to play thereI’ll wait for you all there and I’ll see you very soon”.
Alcaraz, the great emerging figure of world tennis, has led the ranking since September 2022 after winning the US Open.
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CARLOS ALCARAZ ?? WILL PLAY THE #ArgOpen2023! ?
THE NUMBER 1️⃣ OF THE ATP RANKING WILL PLAY IN ARGENTINA! ??
The 19-year-old Spaniard will participate in our tournament for the first time ?
We will wait for you, @carlosalcaraz! ?? pic.twitter.com/xx6OPejYhw
– Argentina Open (@ArgentinaOpen) January 11, 2023
The Spanish tennis player announced last Friday his drop out for Australian Open (January 16-29), first Grand Slam of the season, due to a right leg injury who has suffered during a workout.
The young tennis player’s coach is also Spanish Juan Carlos Ferrero, former No. 1 and who played and was champion at the Argentina Open in 2010. “He has ever told me how hot the public is there” in Buenos Aires, said Alcaraz .
The Argentina Open, in the 250 category, is the most historic tennis tournament in South America: next February he will add 23 consecutive seasons on the ATP Tour.
In addition to the young Spaniard, the Italian has already confirmed his presence Lawrence Musettithe Austrian Dominic Thiemthe British Cameron Norrie and the place Diego Schwarzman, reported the organization.
– Tournament history-
the norwegian Casper Ruud he won the 2022 edition of the Argentina Open, beating local Diego Schwartzman, obtaining his second title, after having won it in 2020.
The list of champions of the contest has the Spanish world numbers 1 Rafael Nadal (13 times Roland Garros champion) and Carlos Moya (Roland Garros champion), as well as the Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten (triple Roland Garros champion), in addition to the Austrian Dominic Thiem (No. 3 and champion of the US Open 2020) and the Spanish David Ferrer (No. 3 and three-time champion of the Argentina Open), specifies the tournament on his website.
Among the Argentines, all those who have been crowned have been top ten, such as David Nalbandian, Gastón Gaudio, Guillermo Coria, Juan Mónaco and Schwartzman.
The entrance Alcaraz says present at the Argentina Tennis Open was first published on newspaper TODAY.
