Spaniards and Italians competed for the game of the year 2022
The current US Open champion, world number 1 Carlos Alcaraz met his group this Thursday in the second championship dispute of the New York Slam and will be able to repeat an epic match against the Italian Jannik Sinner, 6th, and has Daniil Medvedev again in the semifinals.
Alcaraz opens the championship against the German Dominic Koepfer, 78th, who has never faced in the professional circuit. Subsequently he will face the winner of the duel between the Argentinean Guido Pella and the South African Lloyd Harris.
In an eventual third round, the Spaniard could face Briton Daniel Evans, head 26, making his debut against Colombian Daniel Galan. In the round of 16 he could face another Briton, Cameron Norrie, seeded 16, who will make his debut against Russian Alexander Schevchenko.
In the quarterfinals, Alcaraz could face the Italian Jannik Sinner, sixth, who makes his debut against the German Yannick Hanfmann and could field the German Alexander Zverev, seeded 12, in the second round. Zverev makes his debut against the Australian Alexander Vukic.
If they faced each other at the US Open, Sinner and Alcaraz will play the tie-break in the direct match between them, which is 3×3.
On the courts of Flushing Meadows, right in the quarter-finals of the 2022 edition, Sinner and Alcaraz were the protagonists of last season’s “best tennis match”, chosen by experts, the public and voted by tennis players in the ATP Awards. The epic battle, which lasted 5:15, ended in favor of Alcaraz with the score of 6/3 6/7 (7-9) 6/7 (0-7) 7/5 6/3.
Whoever enters the tournament will be able to have the Russian Daniil Medvedev, 3rd champion of the ATP and the US Open 2021, in the semifinals. Medvedev will make his debut against the Hungarian Atilla Ballasz.
Source: Terra
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