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Alcaraz approves a test on his arrival in Rome

The Spanish faces his second participation in the Italic forum

May 09, 2025

Carlos Alcaraz began his journey in the internal internali bnl d’Italia on Friday, the biggest event on beaten land pending in a gold record. The Spanish, who could not compete in the Mutua Madrid Open due to some discomfort in the adductor of the right leg, resumed in the Italic forum a clay tour initiated as Montecarlo champion and finalist in Barcelona. His energy infected an enclosure that covers tennis players as few, delivered to a player who dreams of also dominating the eternal city.

No. 3 of the PIF ATP Rankings referred to a work party, recovering the feeling of blows on the track after 19 days without competing. Alcaraz needed to handle hand to overcome the resistance of Dusan Lajovic 6-3, 6-3, a player with multiple ATP Tour titles about clay and experience in the second week of Roland Garros. If the Murcia needed a rhythm game, where the balls and the strategy marked the way, this debut in Rome offered him the right ingredients.

“The body feels good,” said Alcaraz, who already accumulates a 10-1 balance on beaten land in the 2025 season. “I have moved well, I have run without feeling pain and that is good. It has been a test for me and I think I have approved. I have tried to feel more comfortable on the track, move and not think about the injury.”

In a tournament that is a background race, Alcaraz will continue to compete in Balkan code before figures with good grounds in whipped land, the Spanish will play the third round in Rome against Laslo Djere, winner 6-0, 6-3 before the head of series No. 31 American Alex Michelsen. The Murcia dominates 2-0 the history Lexus ATP Head2head about the Serbian, which already overcome this season on the way to Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell.

Above all, Alcaraz visits one of the less known scenarios in his career in the Italic forum. The Spanish has barely played two games in the Roman clay (1-1), being the ATP Masters 1000 in which it has accumulated the shortest experience so far. His only visit to the Italian tournament in 2023, with the body demanded after Crowning Barcelona and Madrid, resulted immediately. The then No. 135 Fabian Marozsan World Cup closed its way in the third round of the tournament. Now, with oxygen on the legs, Spanish looks for a totally different script.

Alcaraz extends a season of whipped land in which he is most reference on the surface. The Murcian, who carries for the first time the vitola of current champion in Roland Garros, assumed heavy gallons when landing in an exciting tournament row as few. First, raising its first Monte Carlo Cup. Then, climbing for the third time until the final of Barcelona. A firm solidity that aspires to maintain this week in the Italic forum.

On a day full of protagonists, Spanish tennis failed to add a full of joys about Roman clay. The Australian Alexei Popyrin imposed his power 6-1, 7-6 (4) before the Valencian Carlos Taberner, one of the figures that survived the previous phase in the eternal city. In addition, in the duel that opened the day, Karen Khachanov bregó to beat 6-4, 5-7, 6-1 to Argentine Román Andrés Burruchaga.

Did you know what …?
Carlos Alcaraz aspires to become the fifth player capable of conquering three different masters 1000 on whipped land. The Murcian, already crowned champion on the slopes of clay of Montecarlo and Madrid, can follow the steps of illustrious figures such as Marcelo Ríos, Gustavo Kuerten, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic this week in the Italic Forum in Rome.