Alcaraz aims to combine his best version against De Jong

This Wednesday, Carlos Alcaraz will play his second match at Roland Garros, in which he hopes to confirm the good feelings from his debut. On the other side of the network there will be a Dutchman Jesper de Jong176th place in the ATP rankings.

After a month and a half of absence from competitions, the Murcian made his debut on Parisian clay, winning a resounding victory over American Jeffrey John Wolf. With scores of 6-1, 6-2 and 6-1, Carlitos achieved his most convincing victory in a Grand Slam match and put to rest much of the doubt about his injury. The problem is in the pronator teres muscle of the right hand. separated one from El Palmar from the Monte Carlo Masters 1000, the first major clay-court tournament, and also prevented him from participating in the Barcelona Open.

Alcaraz signed up for the Mutua Madrid Open where he fell in the quarterfinals against Andrey Rublev and she chose not to take risks in Rome, where she was again at a low level, to fully recover in time for Roland Garros. After a not too difficult match with Wolf, Carlitos will have a new opportunity to test his fitness in de Jong. “The days I spent in Paris training with good players helped me a lot to realize what level I am at, what confidence I have and what level I can show,” warned the El Palmar player after his debut.

This will be their first meeting in an official match, although the number three in the world, as already happened with Wolf, He is the big favorite to advance to the next round. Favoritism that should not make them overconfident towards an opponent who has already caused a surprise in the tournament.

The Dutchman comes to the match with a good letter of recommendation, a victory in the first round over Jack Draper, world number 39, in a tight match that was decided in five sets (7-5, 6-4, 6-7(3), 3-6 and 6-3). This was his second ATP tournament win, both at Grand Slam tournaments. The previous match he scored was at the Australian Open this year, which was surprising. Pedro Cachin in four sets. He was knocked out in the second round by Jannik Sinner.