2023-05-02 16:00:20
Looking like the end of a great tournament as happened last year and with a certain air of revenge in the spirit of the German Alexander Zverev arrives in advance, in the round of 16, the most demanding face-to-face for the current champion, the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz.
The number two in the world, the main claim of the Mutua Madrid Open He meets Zverev again, not long ago one of the best players in the world who is trying to return to the heights after overcoming the serious injury in the Roland Garros semifinals, against Rafael Nadal. He tore the German ligaments in his right ankle and was out of competition for more than six months.
It was a start over for Sergi Bruguera’s pupil, who had found his best level on clay. He had Nadal under control at Roland Garros, where he arrived after reaching the semifinals in the Monte Carlo Masters 1,000, the final in Madrid and the semifinal in Rome.
He no longer played since that bad afternoon in Paris in 2022 and focused the rest of the year on finding the set-up. Little by little the player from Hamburg, now installed in sixteenth place in the ranking, without any title so far this season and with the semifinal in Dubai as the most lustrous record.
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