It does not seem easy to cross Carlos Alcaraz in the third round of Roland Garros. The Murcian will face the only rival that has beaten him on clay this season with the aim of reaching the round of 16 in Paris.
The American Sebastian Korda also rose to fame in the Parisian arena. It was in 2020, when he surpassed the previous one and reached the round of 16, where on the eve of facing Nadal he made a confession that went around the world: he named his cat Nadal in tribute to the Spanish tennis player, for whom he feels great admiration. “He is my absolute idol. He is one of the reasons why I play tennis,” added the then 18-year-old player.
He wasn’t entirely telling the truth. Tennis was already running through his veins because the young Sebastian is the son of Petr Korda, a Czechoslovakian tennis player who won the 1998 Australian Open and, thanks to that, number 2 in the ranking. Her mother, Regina, also played tennis, although she did not reach the level of Petr, but she was in the top100, she played a round of 16 at the US Open and represented Czechoslovakia at the Seoul Games .
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Of that, the pupil of Dean Goldfine, the historical technician of Andy Roddick, saw your career propel and the results progress. The following year, he won the Quimper and Parma titles and reached the Junior NextGen final, which put him in the top 50.
This season his results on clay have not been the best, although he is the only one who can boast of having surpassed Alcaraz on that surface. A victory to which the Spaniard did not attach much importance, because he came to that tournament with the victory in Miami fresh and without time to adapt to the clay.