Without the trio of Nadal and Alcaraz: Sorribes and Granollers, mixed lineup

Sara Sorribes and Marcel Granollers will form the national mixed doubles team at the Paris Games. The last mystery remaining in the Olympic tennis team was resolved Wednesday, when team captains David Ferrer and Anabel Medina, along with the bulk of the team, led by Carlos Alcaraz and Rafa Nadal, gave a press conference before the start of the competition in the Olympic Village. Thus, the Valencian and the Catalan will have to fight for the only unprecedented Olympic medal. for Spanish tennis, which has only 13 metals, the last one being the Pablo Carreno tournament in Tokyo.

The duo, who will be competing together for the first time, will also be a new member of Spain’s medal table. And in terms of quality, Granollers is the world number one doubles player and Sorribes is a well-known doubles player.and also the format of the tournament, since the mixed team has the smallest tennis court at the Games: only 16 participating pairs, one per country. In Tokyo, Pablo Carreno and Paula Badosa were responsible for forming the duo.although they were unable to progress due to the withdrawal of the team from Begur, who suffered heat stroke during the individual quarter-final game.

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Rafa Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz are therefore expected to be absent from three events at the Games. Participation of the Balearic Islands and Murcia “will be limited” to singles and men’s doubles, with your expected partner. In fact, Sorribes will be the only Spaniard to take part in three draws at the Games. In the women’s doubles, she will partner Cristina Busca. with which she was proclaimed champion of Madrid this year. In addition to the capital, he has four more titles in his specialty. Granollers, in turn, is at the top of the ranking and has won 26 trophies.

In Paris, Sarah and Marcel will try to turn the ambiguous story around in Spanish. To do this, they could compare themselves to other top-level couples. Among them are Greeks Stefanos Tsitsipas and Maria Sakkari, as well as Americans Coco Gauff and Taylor Fritz.a priori the strongest pairs, Kazakhs Alexander Bublik and Elena Rybakina, Czechs Mate Pavic and Donna Vekic, Russians Daniil Medvedev and Mirra Andreeva or Germans Alexander Zverev and Laura SiegemundThis Thursday, like the other national representatives at the Games, they will find out their draw, and therefore their first opponents.

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