World no. 2 Carlos Alcaraz skipped Monte Carlo following deep runs in Indian Wells and Miami. The young gun is back in action, training in Barcelona ahead of the next week’s ATP 500 event. Carlos is the Barcelona Open defending champion, lifting the trophy a year ago and cracking the top-10 the following day.
Alcaraz trained with Denis Shapovalov ahead of his first match against Ilya Ivashka or Nuno Borges
. A teenager fell to Jannik Sinner in the Miami Open semi-final, not feeling well in the decider and revealing post-traumatic arthritis in his left hand and muscular discomfort in the spine.
Alcaraz took a couple of weeks off, not challenging Novak Djokovic in Monte Carlo and setting his eyes on the return in Barcelona. Carlos made a breakthrough run in 2022, starting from outside the top-30 and finishing as the year-end no.
1 player! Alcaraz claimed his first Masters 1000 title in Miami, becoming the third-youngest Masters 1000 champion after Michael Chang and Rafael Nadal. The young Spaniard conquered Barcelona in April and cracked the top-10 before his 19th birthday as the first player since Nadal in 2005!
Carlos Alcaraz is the top seed at the next week’s Barcelona Open.
Not stopping there, a super-talented youngster dominated the Madrid Masters following back-to-back…
