After capturing back-to-back Grand Slam titles and a silver medal on the Paris Olympics, world quantity three Carlos Alcaraz stated one in every of his key objectives for the remainder of the season is to complete because the top-ranked participant on the earth.
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After capturing back-to-back Grand Slam titles and a silver medal on the Paris Olympics, world quantity three Carlos Alcaraz stated one in every of his key objectives for the remainder of the season is to complete because the top-ranked participant on the earth.
The 21-year-old French Open and Wimbledon champion, who misplaced an exciting Olympic last to Novak Djokovic, returns to motion at this week’s Cincinnati Open, the place he can achieve floor on the Serb and Italian Jannik Sinner.
Alcaraz is 450 factors behind world primary Sinner within the ATP stay race to the season finale in Turin, the separate year-to-date standings that function a measuring stick for the year-end primary battle.
“Clearly being primary is a objective each time that I am (behind) and the race is a crucial rating for me. On the finish of the 12 months should you finish the race primary, within the rankings it is fairly related, so you are going to finish primary,” Alcaraz stated.
“So I am actually centered on that. I am centered on going to each match, desirous about taking part in nice tennis, doing a great end result simply to get higher within the race. This 12 months, ending the 12 months as primary is one in every of my essential objectives proper now.”
Final 12 months’s Cincinnati runner-up, Alcaraz will start his marketing campaign towards Gael Monfils or Alexei Popyrin as he returns to hardcourt tennis for the primary time since reaching the Miami quarter-finals in March.
The Cincinnati Open is a crucial tune-up occasion for the Aug. 26-Sept. 8 U.S. Open.
“I am excited to play right here once more. Clearly nice recollections from final 12 months, reaching the ultimate, shedding a extremely tight and epic match (to Djokovic),” Alcaraz stated.
Djokovic withdrew from Cincinnati after his Olympic triumph.
(Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru; Modifying by Peter Rutherford )
