US Open Men’s Championship: Alcaraz vs. Li Tu Live

Good evening and welcome to morning tennis in New York City. We begin the US Open with eHe will make his debut next season with Carlos Alcaraz at Arthur Ashe Stud. The Murcian returns to the courts where he won his first Grand Slam tournament two years ago. fourth participation in the tournament. The third seed that defend the semi-final from last season when lost to Daniil Medvedev 6-7(3), 1-6, 6-3 and 3-6, reaches the last “major” in just a match played on a hard court, After an early loss in Cincinnati to Monfils, with some doubts about his performance at the Ohio State Masters 1000, Alcaraz prepared to retake New York with a clean slate.

On a road full of mines, the Murcian will have a short break in the first test. His first opponent will be Li Tu, the 186th ATP player to qualify.. The 28-year-old Australian, barely eight games played in the ATP chain, He won only one game in his entire career. It was in Newport in 2023when he defeated Aleksandar Vukic. His professional debut came in the midst of a pandemic in 2021, in the middle of that year’s Australian tour, which was focused on Melbourne.

With no precedent between them, Carlos Alcaraz starts with a big advantage against the Australian, who will be playing his second match at a Grand Slam tournament. It is curious that his other rival at the major was another Spaniard, Feliciano Lopez, which he managed to win a set at the Australian Open. Despite the fact that the Murcian arrived with virtually no filming, This does not bother him, having for comparison the situations in which he arrived in Paris and London.: “It doesn’t affect me at all. If I look back a little, for example, at Roland Garros I arrived without many matches on clay, and I had a very good result. And at Wimbledon it’s the same.”