Carlos Alcaraz’s chances to recover number one in Indian Wells

Carlos Alcaraz he lost the advantage of 6 of his 9 opponents in the top 10, but he could return number one in the tournament Indian Wells Masters 1000where he will reappear and where he will have no equal novice Djokovic. And that is that the Serb will not participate in the tournament because he has not been vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Alcaraz, 19 years old, i currently second in the ATP rankingshe was recovering during the week injury that he injured the tendon of his right leg during the match he played and ended up losing 7-5, 4-6 and 5-7 to the British Cameron Norrie in Brazil.

This illness prevented him from competing Mexicobut you are already ready to do it in NOW, where he plans to play two Masters 1000s, the one in Indian Wells and later the one in Miami.

The young tennis player from Murcia, who in 2022 was a semi-finalist in the first of these championships and took the title in the second, will return to the throne if he manages to win in California, where he lost 4-6, 6-4 and 3-6 last season ago Rafael Nadal in the Spanish duel, which means that he defends 360 points this year and can add another 640.

Should he advance this week and next and win the trophy, the pupil of top-seeded Juan Carlos Ferrer, he would reach 7420 for Djokovic’s 7160. Therefore, he could bring back number one. Although the weight will be maximum.

As of today, Alcaraz continues with the 6780 points he already had and is 380 behind Djokovicwho added 180 as a semi-finalist at the ATP 500 in Dubai, where he lost to Daniel Medvedev for double 4-6. If he wants to regain the top spot in the rankings, he must win in Indian Wells.

Alcaraz loses with 6 top 10 rivals

Medvedev, the eventual Dubai champion, moved up 455 points to sixth on the leaderboard with 3,775. In fact, he scored the most points last week among the top 10 players. Andrei Rublev He rose 255 points after losing to his countryman in the doubles 2-6 in that final and is seventh with 3,660.

Danish Holger’s rune, eighth with 3,321, 160 achieved; American Taylor Fritz, fifth with 3,795, he got 135; and Norwegian Casper Ruud, fourth with 5,560, he collected 45 more.

In the last days, they did not count, although they did not take away, the other four tennis players who are in the top ten. Apart from Alcaraz, the Greek is in the same situation Stefanos Tsitsipas, third on the list with 5,805; Nadal, who becomes ninth with 3,315; and Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, tenth with 3,245.